On Sunday, 14 December shortly after 11am the Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter was tasked by NSW Ambulance to the Pacific Highway in Nords Wharf, Lake Macquarie, where a male cyclist in his 40s had been struck by a car.

CareFlight’s specialist doctor and NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the man at the scene for head injuries.

The man was transported, while undergoing further medical treatment, by road ambulance to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition.