Motorists have been left in a sticky situation after a truck carting a load of sugar caught fire on the Hume Highway near Tarcutta on Wednesday night.
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At about 9pm a B-double was travelling south through Mount Adrah when the driver, a 22-year-old man, noticed flames coming from his vehicle and stopped.
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Firefighters attended the scene but fought in vain as the fire spread to both B-double trailers, completely destroying them.
Police also attended, and said sugar spilled into one of the southbound lanes, forcing the closure of that lane.
A speed restriction of 40 kilometres per hour was placed on the other lane, but it's understood that has since re-opened after the vehicle was removed from the scene.
The driver escaped uninjured and a police incident report has been filed, but the matter is not being treated as suspicious.
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