An injured driver has been pulled from the wreckage of his truck just moments before it was engulfed in flames after crashing on the Pacific Mwy in northern NSW.
The driver, a man aged in his 20s, had a lucky escape when his B-double went over a southbound embankment beside the highway at Maclean on Friday morning.
State Emergency Crews who were first on the scene pulled him from the twisted cabin.
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They were just in time. When Fire and Rescue NSW teams arrived moments later, they found the truck fully alight.
NSW Rural Fire Service crews also helped extinguish the blaze which completely gutted the truck.
The injured man was taken to Lismore Base Hospital with a back injury, NSW Ambulance said.
The major highway was initially closed in both directions near Fallows Lane just after 6am, with “no forecast for when the motorway will open again,” NSW Live Traffic said hours after the crash.
Anyone driving in the area was warned to expect delays, with traffic diversions in place.
But one northbound lane and one southbound lane have since reopened for traffic to move past the crash site “with caution,” NSW Live Traffic said.
The cause of the crash in still unclear and remains under investigation, NSW Police said.