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A teenager who suffered serious head injures in a car crash in Waikato last night managed to crawl up a bank and walk more than a kilometre for help.
A Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance spokesperson said the girl had been driving along a twisting road when she veered off an embankment near Rangitoto.
The car rolled several times and she was thrown out suffering head and facial injuries.
Despite her injuries, she managed to crawl back up the embankment and make her way over a kilometre to seek assistance, the spokesperson said.
She was stabilised at Te Kuiti hospital, then flown to Waikato hospital accompanied by her mother.
St John communications manager Murray Bannister said an ambulance picked up the girl, suffering serious head injuries, from Manu Rd about 9pm.
She was believed to be about 15-years-old, he said.
Waikato Hospital spokeswoman Mary Anne Gill said this morning the girl was in a stable condition in the hospital's neurosurgical ward.
- NZPA
