BY IAN CROUCH
Motorists heading north on the Pacific Highway are being advised of diversions following a fatal truck at Rainbow Flat crash south of Taree.
Police say a B-Double carrying general freight crashed in the northbound lanes approaching The Lakes Way just before 2.30am on Thursday.
The driver died at the scene.
The northbound lanes of the highway are closed at Failford Road with diversions in place.
Police say it will be some time before the truck is removed and the highway reopened.
BY IAN CROUCH
Emergency services have been called to reports of a persons trapped accident at 12 Mile Creek.
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to the northbound lanes of the Pacific Highway just after 5 o'clock on Friday morning near the weigh-in station close to the Buckets Way.
They found a vehicle crashed but the driver has left the scene,
Meanwhile, there are long delays for southbound motorists on the highway at Rainbow Flat after a semi-trailer carrying a load of Jatz crackers caught fire just before 4.30am.
Both southbound lanes are closed with diversions in place.
