A Hutt Valley man was seriously injured when he was flung from a quad bike at high speed this morning.
The man, aged in his 20s, suffered multiple injuries when he crashed at the Upper Hutt end of the Akatarawa Valley about 9.50am.
He was taken to Wellington Hospital in a serious condition by the Life Flight Trust's Westpac rescue helicopter.
Life Flight crewman Dave Greenberg said friends of the injured man had taken him to Akatarawa Rd on the back of a ute, so the crew was not able to see the crash site.
"As we understand it the man was ejected off his quad bike when he hit a stationary object at a fairly high speed," he said.
