{"id":52208,"date":"2026-07-17T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/52208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:53:16","slug":"hume-highway-partially-closed-at-breadalbane-after-fiery-truck-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/52208\/","title":{"rendered":"Hume Highway partially closed at Breadalbane after fiery truck crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A driver is missing after a fiery crash on the Hume Highway this morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Breadalbane, about 32 kilometres south-west of Goulburn, just after 4am.<\/p>\n

NSW Police say a road train and a B-double truck were involved in the crash, which temporarily closed the main road route between Sydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old man who was driving the B-triple road train was assessed for minor head injuries and taken to Yass Hospital in a stable condition, but the driver of the second truck remains missing.<\/p>\n

Fire and Rescue acting Superintendent Peter Murray said the incident was ongoing, with all emergency service agencies still in place.<\/p>\n

“At this time, the fire continues to burn,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters are working to extinguish that fire and contain any runoff.”<\/p>\n

Northbound lanes on the Hume Highway are expected to be closed for several hours while police investigate.<\/p>\n

Southbound lanes have now reopened.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

The clean-up following a two-truck crash on the Hume Highway at Breadalbane is expected to take several hours.\u00a0 (Supplied: NSW RFS)<\/p>\n

Diversions suitable for all vehicles are in place via Canberra on the Barton and Federal highways.<\/p>\n

It is the second crash at Breadalbane in the past month.<\/p>\n

On June 30 an explosive crash involving six semi-trailers <\/a>at the Windmills Rest Area closed the highway in both directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is missing after a fiery crash on the Hume Highway this morning. Emergency services were called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37282,1991,844,14095,14094,37281,247],"class_list":["post-52208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-b-triple","tag-crash","tag-fire","tag-highway","tag-hume-highway","tag-road-train","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}