A wheelchair-bound seven-year-old was rushed to hospital after he fell down a bank.
His Wellington family had been out for a walk alongside him when the boy fell down a bank near Ohakune, Palmerston North-based rescue helicopter pilot Chris Moody said.
It's unclear how seriously the boy was injured, but Mr Moody said the concern of the family and a nearby medical centre was heightened due to the boy already having a disability.
After being checked at the centre, the family decided to speed up the process by driving their son to meet the chopper on State Highway 4 as it flew to pick the boy up.
The child was picked up by the chopper at Kakatahi, 50km inland from Whanganui, and airlifted to Whanganui Hospital for treatment.
