Skara Bohny16:48, Jul 05 2021
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One person was flown to Nelson Hospital this morning after a single-car accident near the Tākaka airstrip.
One person was airlifted to hospital with moderate injuries after a single-vehicle crash near Tākaka. The sole occupant had to be assisted from the vehicle after crashing into a ditch on State Highway 60, about 5km away from Tākaka towards Collingwood. Tākaka chief fire officer Philip Woolf said a person needed to be “assisted from the vehicle” after it slid on ice on the road, and warned people to be aware of road conditions.
Colville said a Takaka land search and rescue (SAR) team was on stand-by and teams were about to be flown in to the national park on Sunday morning after an earlier search had shown the missing tramper had not spent a night at Boulder Lake Hut, where he was expected to be on Friday evening. He said a check of the Hut’s visitors’ book showed only one tramper had stayed in the hut. Police found the named tramper from the book along the track and established he had spent a night in the hut by himself. It meant that the missing man had possibly either become disorientated or fallen, Colville said, spending both Friday and Saturday night out in the elements, where temperatures fell below zero.
It was a busy day for the rescue helicopter crew, airlifting to safety a baby who suffered burns, a motorcyclist and a mountainbiker, who came a cropper in separate accidents.
Samantha Gee11:18, May 02 2021
The rescue helicopter flew two injured montainbikers to Nelson Hospital on Saturday.
Mountain bikers from Nelson and the West Coast were picked up by the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter after they suffered injuries in separate incidents on Saturday. Pilot Euan Stratford said the rescue helicopter was called out to Sharlands Creek in the Hira Forest at 1pm on Saturday after a 55-year-old man came off his mountainbike. He suffered injuries to his head and shoulder and was flown to Nelson Hospital. Almost immediately after that, the rescue helicopter was called to the West Coast, near Karamea, after a 45-year-old woman came off her bike and dislocated her shoulder, just south of the Heaphy Hut.
The Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter attended the incident on Saturday morning.
One person has suffered serious leg injuries after a crash involving a car and cyclist on State Highway 60 in Golden Bay on Saturday morning. A police spokeswoman said the incident happened around 9.50am on the section Takaka-Collingwood Highway between Tukurua Rd and Parapara Beach Rd. Police, fire crews and ambulance attended. The road was down to one lane while emergency services worked on the scene, with the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter sent to the site around 10am.
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