Rescue helicopter airlifts SH5 motorcyclist to hospital with serious injuries

Police were called to the crash at 12.33pm. Photo / File

A man riding a motorcycle has been seriously injured in a crash on the Napier-Taupō Rd, State Highway 5, near Tarawera.

A helicopter, police and St John ambulance responded to the single vehicle crash at 12.33pm on Friday.

A police spokeswoman said it appeared to be a single-vehicle crash in which a motorcyclist had come off their motorcycle.

A St John Ambulance spokesperson said the man in his 60s was taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.

A Hawke's Bay District Health Board spokesperson said the man was being assessed on Friday afternoon.