Truck drivers ‘miraculously’ emerge nearly unscathed from explosions and fire after Hume Highway truck crash

Six trucks – including one carrying eight tonnes of butane cans – destroyed at NSW rest stop near Breadalbane, police say

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Police say it is “nothing short of a miracle” that six truck drivers emerged relatively unscathed after an explosive crash involving semi-trailers carrying tonnes of flammable materials on a major New South Wales highway.

Two trucks appear to have collided when entering a roadside rest stop, police said, with one crashing into four other rigs just after 5am Tuesday on the Hume Highway near Breadalbane in the state’s southern tablelands.