{"id":612546,"date":"2026-04-17T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612546\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:36:13","slug":"hume-freeway-closed-in-both-directions-after-multi-vehicle-crash-near-violet-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612546\/","title":{"rendered":"Hume Freeway closed in both directions after multi-vehicle crash near Violet Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Hume Freeway is closed in both directions after a multi-vehicle crash near Violet Town in Victoria&#8217;s north-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said the crash involved a B-double truck and numerous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Country Fire Authority (CFA), Victoria Police, State Emergency Service (SES), Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV), and Ambulance Victoria are all responding to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The CFA said seven of its crews attended the scene after reports of a crash just before 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A grassy landscape with a road and a truck on its side\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aa5c07ee58573846d0ed5659c32a6edb.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The crash on the Hume Freeway at Violet Town involved multiple vehicles.\u00a0 (ABC News: Charmaine Manuel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ambulance Victoria said paramedics from the Advanced Life Support and Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance teams attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two adults and two children were taken to Northeast Health Wangaratta by road in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man in his 50s was also transported by road in a stable condition to Goulburn Valley Health in Shepparton.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aerial view of a car crash on a highway\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/83e39a3655b55c2c1905d107410658ee.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Ambulance Victoria says five people have been taken to hospital following the crash. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The CFA issued a warning for a hazardous liquid spill in the area immediately surrounding the crash, but authorities say there is no threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The CFA said crews were working to contain the spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">According to VicTraffic, northbound motorists are being asked to detour via the Goulburn Valley Highway at Seymour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Southbound motorists have been asked to exit at Violet Town and detour via Murchison-Violet Town Road and the Goulburn Valley Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hume Freeway is closed in both directions after a multi-vehicle crash near Violet Town in Victoria&#8217;s north-east.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,64,63,297487,17724,297485,297486,44,1158,297484],"class_list":{"0":"post-612546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-crash-near-violet-town","12":"tag-emergency-services","13":"tag-hume-freeway-closed","14":"tag-hume-freeway-closed-in-both-directions","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-violet-town"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}