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All lanes of the Hume Motorway are now open after an earlier truck crash and salvage operation at Berrima.
The motorway was closed southbound while crews cleared the crash site just south of Medway Road.
Diversions have been lifted and traffic conditions are returning to normal through the area.
EARLIER:
A truck driver has been taken to hospital following a crash in the Southern Highlands early this morning.
The crash happened just after 4am on Thursday, November 1 2018, when a B-double travelling north on the Hume Highway, near Medway Road, Mittagong, left the road, hit the embankment and travelled onto the southbound lanes.
A Ford station wagon travelling south hit the rear of the truck.
The driver of the truck, a 56-year-old man from Minchinbury, was taken to Liverpool Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the Ford, 63-year-old man from South Australia, was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
All southbound lanes of the Hume Highway remain closed.
Diversions are in place via the Old Hume Highway.
An accident on the Old Hume Motorway in Berrima has closed the motorway in a southbound direction.