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<postdate>2025-02-13 13:09:01</postdate>
<headline>One dead, another trapped in truck crash carnage</headline>
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<caption>A driver has died after two B-double trucks crashed on the Hume Highway near Canberra. (HANDOUT/NSW FIRE AND RESCUE)</caption>
<p class="wire-column__preview__author"><span class="kicker-line">ByÂ <b>Jack Gramenz</b>Â in Sydney</span></p>
<p><strong>One driver has been killed and another is fighting for life in hospital after being freed in a near-seven-hour operation to pull apart the wreckage from a two-truck crash on a major highway.</strong></p>
<p>Emergency services were called to the Hume Highway at Oolong, north of Canberra, early on Thursday morning after a B-double truck crashed into the rear of another that had already left the road and rolled.</p>
<p>The driver of the rolled truck was pronounced dead at the scene.</p>
<p>Firefighters used hydraulic tools to cut the other driver free, while heavy haulage tow-trucks moved loads to give them better access during a complex rescue operation that took almost seven hours.</p>
<p>The driver was freed about 8.15am on Thursday and treated by paramedics and a specialist trauma doctor before being flown to hospital in a critical condition.</p>
<p>Southbound lanes of the highway remained closed at 11.30am as police investigated the scene, with traffic diverted via the Federal and Barton highways.</p>
<p>Police are expected to provide an update on the investigation on Thursday afternoon.</p>
<p>The truck driver killed in the crash was the 34th death on NSW roads in 2025.</p>
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