A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a vehicle towing a horse float in Tasmania's north.
Police said the rider was declared dead at the scene, at Meander Valley Road, Hagley, on Saturday morning.
The identity of the motorcyclist has not been released.
The fatality brings the number of motorcyclists killed on Tasmanian roads in 2018 to five.
Eleven motorcyclists died in Tasmania in 2017, while 10 died in 2016.
The ABC understands the rider was a Tasmanian.
The horses in the float escaped injury.
Garry Bailey, chair of the Road Safety Advisory Council, said motorcyclists were "overrepresented" in the road death statistics.
"With five motorcycle fatalities this year, they are seriously overrepresented — it's half the fatalities so far this year," he said.
"We have keep banging away at this basic message — speed, inattention, drink driving, using drugs, all the basic causes and, of course, speed is a huge aggravating factor in any motorcycle incident because they're vulnerable on the road, minimum protection apart from a helmet and hopefully good safety clothing."
Mr Bailey said the total road death toll of 12 was a "challenge for every Tasmanian".
"The responsibility ultimately lies with those whose hands are on the wheel or on the handle bars."
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