A 33-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after a car rolled off the road near Nelson. Photo / Google Maps
A 33-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after a car rolled off the road near Nelson.
Police were notified of the incident just before midnight.
The driver was ejected from the vehicle, which had landed in a paddock along State Highway 60, near Appleby.
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and members of the public located the injured man, who was taken to Nelson Hospital before being transferred by helicopter to Wellington Hospital's intensive care unit.
A search of the area where the vehicle came to a halt was conducted with the assistance of firefighters who used thermal imaging equipment to ensure no-one else had been ejected from the car.
