A MOTORCYCLIST was killed on Friday morning after he was knocked down by a lorry in Boon Lay.

The lorry driver had been travelling along Boon Lay Way and making a right turn into Toh Guan Road when the accident happened.

Paramedics pronounced the motorcyclist, a Singaporean man in his 40s, dead at 6.25am.

The driver is assisting police with investigations.