Head on MVA
This afternoon the Trustpower TECT Rescue Helicopter was dispatched Waihi where two cars had collided head on in the Karangahake Gorge, this was the second head on the the gorge today. Three patients received critical injuries in the crash. NZ Fire service were required to cut some of the victims from the wreckage. Two patients were airlifted to Waikato hospital by the Auckland and Waikato Westpac helicopters and one, a 17 year old Auckland woman, was airlifted by the Trustpower TECT rescue helicopter to Tauranga hospital in a critical condition.

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