A man involved in a car crash near Taihape last week will need to go into a brain injury rehab unit.
The man, in his early 20s, may have been thrown from a car that rolled off State Highway 1 into a paddock.
He was found about 25m from the vehicle, while another occupant, a woman, had to be cut from the car.
The man's mother said that he had been transferred from Whanganui Hospital to Wellington.
She said the doctors were "trying to transfer him to another hospital that has a brain rehab [unit]".