A 20-year-old Hastings woman has been flown to Wellington Hospital for specialist treatment after being critically injured in a motorcycle crash near Paki Paki on Saturday evening.
She was a passenger on the motorcycle which was in collision with a car on SH2 about 5.30 and was initially taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital's intensive care unit with multiple injuries.
It is understood she also suffered a serious head injury.
She was airlifted to Wellington at midnight on Saturday.
District Command Centre Senior Sergeant Dan Foley said the woman had been thrown "some distance" in the collision which also left the male rider of the motorcycle, an Otane man, also with serious injuries.