{"id":718184,"date":"2026-06-06T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:06:11","slug":"truck-rollover-forces-closure-of-melbournes-princes-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718184\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck rollover forces closure of Melbourne&#8217;s Princes Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A truck driver has been rushed to hospital after her vehicle rolled over on the Princes Freeway, causing major road delays in Melbourne&#8217;s west.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fire Rescue Victoria said it took 45 minutes to rescue the 61-year-old woman, who was trapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Several tonnes of chipboard lay scattered over the freeway and the slope beside the wrecked truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A fire spokesperson said it would take several hours to clean up the debris from the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He said it was not the first time an incident like had happened on the same bend in the road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A rolled over truck surrounded by multiple emergency workers.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9af439e0ca7bd41d86df1fa32fd8ce62.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\">Emergency services freed a 61-year-old driver from the truck. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria&#8217;s transport department said all city-bound lanes of the Princes Freeway onto the West Gate Freeway and Geelong Road were closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ramp from the M80 Ring Road Altona-bound onto the Princes Freeway is also closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ambulance Victoria said its crews responded to the incident just before 7:30am on Saturday, and that Advanced Life Support paramedics treated one person at the scene and transported them to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A truck crash across a freeway in Melbourne\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/16eedac3905969e8371146aee1abc58d.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\">Aerial footage taken of the rollover shows the vehicle&#8217;s load spread across the ground and multiple lanes below. (ABC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A truck driver has been rushed to hospital after her vehicle rolled over on the Princes Freeway, causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,348311,44,139755],"class_list":["post-718184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-laverton-north","tag-news","tag-truck-rollover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718184","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=718184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}