One critical in Waituhi, Gisborne crash

Emergency services were called to Waituhi, west of Gisborne. Image / Google Maps

A man has been critically injured in a crash involving a pedestrian tonight, police say.

Emergency services were alerted at 8.59pm that there had been a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian on Lavenham Rd in Waituhi, 20 kilometres west of Gisborne, a police spokeswoman said.

She didn't know whether the injured man was the pedestrian or was from the vehicle, but St John Ambulance tweeted that a man with critical injuries had been taken to Gisborne Hospital.

The Serious Crash Unit has been notified.