A young man has suffered serious injuries after falling sixty feet down a bank while riding a quad bike, while a a six-year-old boy and 42-year-old man are in hospital after a quadbike crash near Auckland this morning.
St John were helped by a rescue helicopter at around half past one this afternoon, as they rescued the man on Mander Road in the Waimata Valley near Gisborne.
Firemen who attended the scene said the man, in his late teens or early twenties, suffered a number of cuts, and could also have internal injuries.
They say the man was fortunate as his fall was broken by manuka bushes, which saved him from plummeting further.
He has been taken to Gisborne Hospital.
