Horse-car crash injures man

A 21-year-old Tauranga man is in hospital with a serious head injury after the motorbike he was riding and a horse collided early this morning.

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter. Photo: file.

The Waikato-based Westpac Rescue Helicopter was alerted to the incident at 5am on Sunday after the young man injured his head when crashing his motorbike into a horse, says pilot Dan Harcourt.

The man was transported under the care of an Intensive Care Unit retrieval team from Whakatane Hospital to Waikato Hospital in serious condition.

2 comments

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Posted on 02-03-2014 16:57 | By panda

Is the horse ok?


wow

Posted on 03-03-2014 09:05 | By silverhorn

Really Panda? The young man is in hospital fighting for his life and you care about the horse?


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