The rescue helicopter on the pad at Royal North Shore after flying the 25-year-old rugby league player down from Tuncurry.
A 25-year-old was flown from the Tuncurry rugby league ground to Royal North Shore Hospital suffering a neck injury and concussion.
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The Forster Tuncurry Hawks were playing the Taree City Bulls in the gathering darkness on Sunday afternoon and according to the publicity officer from the Hawks it was a Taree player who was injured.
“It is not known at this stage the extent of his injury but the Hawks club would like to extend their best wishes to the young man and his family, and hopes for a speedy recovery,” wrote Michael Selfe.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service said the man was being airlifted as a ‘precautionary measure’.
