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Rangiriri Road crash condition updatesPlease note the earlier releases from Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance and Waikato Police.This family all from Glen Murray, came under the care of our trauma team at Waikato Hospital. Patient updates: Mother, 40, serious condition in intensive care unit Father, 38, under assessment in ED Daughter 3 years 8 months serious condition in intensive care unit Son 2 years six months under assessment in ED. Follow up from accident at Lichfield yesterday morning. A Putaruru woman aged 42 years is serious but stable condition in intensive care unit. Date: 4 November 2009 Mary Anne Gill Director Media and Communications Waikato District Health Board P.O. Box 934 Hamilton 3240 Ph: 07 834 3684 Mobile: 021 705 213 www.waikatodhb.govt.nz Westpac Waikato Air AmbulanceAt 11.30am this morning the Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance was dispatched to a vehicle roll-over on Te Ohaki Road, Rangiriri West, north of Huntly. A 4wdutility with two adults and two children (believed to be mum dad and their children) on board had rolled off the road landing upside down on the roadside fence. No other vehicle was thought to be involved. Paramedics described the mothers chest injuries as critical and the female child's head injury as serious. They were both airlifted to Waikato Hospital. The father suffered a shoulder injury and the other child was also seriously injured. We here at the Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance have a policy of keeping the media informed of our work. We do this as a service to the media and in an effort to raise our profile with the public to assist with our fund raising campaigns. Our service is only possible because of sponsor support and donations. We appreciate seeing our name in any stories utilising info supplied by us. Dan Harcourt Pilot Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance Waikato Hospital Pembroke Street PO Box 9308 Hamilton 3240 www.rescue.org.nz P: (07) 839 8869 M: 0272 294 934 |