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A 14-year-old on his skateboard is placed in intensive care after getting hit by a car in the Bay of Plenty.

The teen from Tauranga was trying to cross the road last Saturday afternoon when he was hit by the vehicle in a portion of Maunganui Road.

It is not clear whether he was carrying the skateboard or riding it at the time of the incident.

He was taken to Tauranga Hospital with a head injury. He is in a serious yet stable condition.

Mount Maunganui Fire Brigade senior station officer Roger Pickett said the extent of the boy’s injuries were unclear at the scene.

“He wasn’t conscious … he’d obviously taken a bit of a bang to the head. He [wasn't] that flash,” he said.

As of two nights ago, the boy is in a stable condition in intensive care.

At 5.30 pm on the same afternoon, a motorcyclist and a van collided near the same spot on Maunganui Rd.

From Twitter…

Teen skater hurt in horror day on roads http://t.co/uX3yQdrK #News #NZ

— NewZealandFlag (Flag of NewZealand) (@NewZealandFlag) Mon Jun 11 2012

The 61-year-old motorcyclist from Mount Maunganui suffered severe arm, torso, and shoulder injuries and a possible fracture in his pelvis. The man is in a stable condition in the intensive care unit of Tauranga Hospital.

At 7pm, another vehicle veered from the road and rolled through scrub before resting upside down in a drain.