UPDATED 5.46pm: A 78-year-old Tauranga man is in Tauranga Hospital with serious hip and shoulder injuries after his tractor rolled this afternoon.
TECT Trustpower rescue helicopter pilot Liam Brettkelly said the man had been mowing a paddock when his tractor rolled on the property in the Welcome Bay hills.
He was flown to Tauranga hospital in a serious condition.
UPDATED: An elderly man has been flown to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition after his tractor rolled on a rural Welcome Bay property.
He is believed to have sustained serious hip and shoulder injuries.