The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to Horopito, north of Ohakune, on Monday 10 July, where an elderly Whanganui man had suffered serious multiple injuries in a vehicle accident on SH 4, after the car he was driving left the road and rolled coming to rest upside down in a ditch.
The patient was initially trapped in the upturned vehicle. Local Police, Fire and Ambulance services assisted at the scene.
On arrival of the rescue helicopter, the on-board Intensive Care Paramedic stabilised the patient at the scene before he was airlifted to Whanganui Hospital in a serious condition.
