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Auckland's Westpac rescue helicopter service was called out twice at the same time yesterday afternoon, requiring a back-up helicopter to be used.
A middle-aged woman was taken to Waikato Hospital with suspected fractures and a head injury after she was hit by a car in Tairua, on
the Coromandel Peninsula.
The back-up helicopter took a man in his 40s from Woodhill Forest, West Auckland, to hospital after he crashed on a mountainbike trail, suffering a suspected fractured hip.