HE NEVER MADE IT HOME..! – A DRIVER HAS D-I:ED FOLLOWING A HORRIFIC TRUCK CRASH ON THE HUME HIGHWAY AT BREADALBANE, NSW.

Driver dies after horror truck crash on Hume Highway at Breadalbane, NSW

The driver had been missing and the Hume Highway shut in both directions after a horror crash between a B-double and a road train.

A driver of a B-double truck has died after a horror crash with a road train on the Hume Highway in the NSW Southern Tablelands.

The highway was engulfed in smoke and one of the drivers was missing but later found deceased.

A B-double crashed into the road train at Breadalbane about 4.10am on Friday, with one of the vehicles then bursting into flame, blanketing the road in a thick plume of smoke.

Police were told the road train had broken down on the highway when a B-double carrying aerosol cans crashed into the rear of the truck.

Police say the driver of the road train, a 31-year-old man, suffered minor head injuries and has been taken to Yass Hospital for further treatment.

A driver has died. Picture: NSW Rural Fire Service

Firefighters battled the inferno. Picture: NSW Rural Fire Service
The B-double driver was unaccounted for as firefighters battled the inferno. The driver is yet to be formally identified.

Both trucks were destroyed in the blaze.

The major route, which links Sydney and Melbourne, was closed in both directions for several hours following the crash but has since been reopened.