A 24-year-old man from Beaver Bank, N.S., is dead after crashing a dirt bike in the area early Saturday. 

Halifax RCMP say it responded to a report of the single-vehicle crash at the intersection of Meadowbrook Drive and Pinebrook Drive at around 1:20 a.m. 

Once they arrived at the scene, police say they learned the man had been driving a dirt bike on Pinebrook Drive when it left the road and went into a ditch. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

An investigation is underway.