A runaway B-double truck has rolled out of a service station in Victoria and across a major highway before crashing at a bottom of an embankment with no one at the wheel.
The fully loaded 60-tonne grain truck needed to be removed with heavy machinery after travelling 150 metres and slamming through barriers on the Glenelg Highway near Skipton on Thursday afternoon.
The driver was inside a Caltex petrol station when the incident unfolded at about 4.30pm, and emergency services were called to recover the vehicle and clean up a diesel spill.
No one was injured and vehicles on the highway managed to avoid the out-of-control truck as careered across multiple lanes.
Victoria Police Constable Anthony Graham told The Courier the highway was partially closed after the incident.
“The truck was parked at the Caltex service station. There was no one in the vehicle at the time. The driver was out of the vehicle inside the service station,” he said.
“Something’s gone wrong, and it’s gone across the Glenelg Highway, careered down an embankment into what’s known as Stewart Park, and come to rest at the bottom of a billabong.
“We’re in the process of arranging for it to be pulled out.”
The incident is understood to be a case of “driver error”, 7News reported.
Header image: The truck after coming to a stop at the bottom of the embankment (supplied).
