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A male driver died after his car hit a concrete barrier westbound, throwing him from the vehicle, which then exploded into flames around 4 a.m. Monday.

Police reopened the westbound lanes from Fox Drive to 149 Street just before 11 a.m., after crews cleared the site. Investigators spent hours at the scene and said speed was likely a factor in the spectacular crash.

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The driver died before emergency crews could arrive.

The car hit the centre concrete barrier before skidding across the westbound lanes, where it came to a stop.

The traffic fatality is the city’s 19th of the year.

The death comes less than 24 hours after a 53-year-old woman was killed 2 p.m. Sunday when the motorcycle she was driving struck a concrete barrier on the Groat Road Bridge.

That single-vehicle crash, involving a Honda Shadow motorcycle, was in the northbound lanes of the bridge. Paramedics and fire crews responded to the scene, but the woman died before she could be taken to hospital.

Neither speed nor alcohol were believed to be factors in the motorcycle crash.

The woman’s death followed two separate motorcycle fatalities Sunday, Sept. 10.

A 23-year-old woman who was a passenger on a motorcycle died around 9 p.m. that day when it collided with a car near the bottom of Victoria Park Road hill at Groat Road. The 30-year-old male rider suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Two hours later, a 29-year-old man was killed on Parsons Road when his motorcycle also collided with a car.