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Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter crew picked up an injured tramper in Speargrass Valley, Nelson Lakes National Park.<\/p>\n
A tramper with a fractured ankle was winched out of a remote, snowy valley after setting off a personal locator beacon.<\/p>\n
Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter (NMRH) pilot Brendan Hiatt said the crew responded to a personal locator beacon activation on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The alert led them to a party of five trampers in the Speargrass Valley, about 5 kilometres from Speargrass Hut in the remote Nelson Lakes National Park.<\/p>\n
The helicopter couldnt land in the valley, so an NMRH medic attended the injured tramper, before the tramper was winched to safety and flown to Nelson Hospital, Hiatt said.<\/p>\n
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Later on Saturday, the NMRH crew picked up a man from a rural Ngatimoti property. The man had sustained injuries after his quad bike rolled over.<\/p>\n
The crew also picked up a man in Motueka, who had suffered a medical event during a martial arts class, Hiatt said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, animal-related reports kept police busy across Nelson-Tasman over the weekend.<\/p>\n
On Friday evening, police were alerted to a car versus cow incident on Tkaka Hill Rd, on the Golden Bay side, about 7.50pm. The car's wing mirror had clipped the cow, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The driver was uninjured, but there was no word on the cow, they said.<\/p>\n
Around the same time on Friday, police received reports of a seal on State Highway 6, near the NPD fuelling station at Hira, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, at 6.47am, police were alerted to an adult seal, and a dead baby seal on Wakapuaka Rd.<\/p>\n
The baby seal was collected by a road worker, and the adult seal was not seen again, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
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