A truck carrying a 20 tonnes of Bega Cheese shut down the Princes Highway in NSW‘s south coast for up to 12 hours last night, when it rolled, skidded to a halt 100 metres down the hill, and spilt its load over both lanes, creating a deliciously gooey road hazard.
Cheese spilling out the side of a truck that’s on its side at Jerrawangala. @973ABCIllawarra pic.twitter.com/CjbrKQ3JBp
— Ainslie DrewittSmith (@AinslieClaire) February 8, 2016
The accident occurred near Jerrawangala, near Nowra, at about 10:30pm last night, causing a traffic nightmare. At one point, cars were backed down the road for as far as 12km (down past Wandandian, if that means anything to ‘ya).
By about 11am this morning, traffic was once again moving normally, with the vast tonnes of cheese on their way back to the factory to be weighed for insurance purposes.
The driver was taken to hospital suffering from shock, and is in a stable condition.
