A head-on crash near Kawakawa has left a man with serious head injuries. Photo / file
A man has been airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a head-on crash near Kawakawa.
The smash occurred on State Highway 1 about 400m north of the Three Bridges at 12.20am today. Kawakawa fire chief Wayne Martin said a young man driving a station wagon had to be cut
out of the wreckage by firefighters using the jaws of life.
He was taken first to Bay of Islands Hospital in Kawakawa with serious head injuries then flown to Whangārei by the Northland Rescue Helicopter.
He was the sole occupant of the station wagon.
The two occupants of a Hilux ute travelling in the opposite direction were uninjured.
