HAY COVE, N.S. - A 69-year-old man is dead after a motorcycle crash on a Cape Breton highway.

RCMP say the driver was travelling eastbound on Highway 4 near Hay Cove on Saturday evening when he hit the shoulder of the road and lost control.

Emergency workers took the man to Cape Breton Regional Hospital where he died from his injuries.

Police say the man was from Birch Grove.