CRASH SCENE: A man who was trapped in his vehicle on the River Rd over Sunday night was airlifted to Whanganui Hospital yesterday morning. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
A Whanganui man in his 50s spent Sunday night trapped in his vehicle after it crashed down a bank on the River Rd.
Emergency services were called to the scene near Ranana at about 7.45am.
He was discovered by his family trapped in a vehicle that had crashed down a
bank when they went searching for him yesterday morning.
The man was airlifted to hospital in a stable condition by the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter.
Raetihi firefighters freed the man from the vehicle and he was stabilised by the onboard intensive care paramedic.