UPDATE 6.30pm:
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A woman who was trapped in her car for almost an hour after a collision with a milk tanker on a sharp bend on the Great Ocean Road on Sunday has been flown to Melbourne.
Senior Constable Corey Holland, of the Warrnambool Highway Patrol, said the accident happened at Bartons Corner at the intersection of Rowans Road and the Great Ocean Road near Nirranda about 1.45pm
Senior Constable Holland said the driver of the car, a Warrnambool woman, was flown to Melbourne on the HEMS 4 rescue helicopter with non-life-threatening leg injuries.
The truck driver was not injured.
“It was probably fortunate that it was lower speed impact,” he said.
He said the accident happened around a corner which has a recommended speed limit of 60km/h and the milk tanker-trailer, which was heading east, was slowing down when the accident happened.
Both vehicles were extensively damaged in the accident, and milk had to be transferred to another tanker before it could be towed away by heavy haulage.
Four SES rescue trucks and support vehicles along with 12 members helped ambulance officers free the woman who was trapped in the vehicle.
SES rescue commander Steve Bakker said the jaws of life, along with heavy duty rams and cutters and spreaders, were used to free the woman in just under an hour.
He said SES crews have been kept busy with multiple trees down over roads and buildings damaged in the strong winds.
“People are urged to take care in the stormy conditions, drive to the conditions and not seek shelter or park under trees.”
UPDATE 3.33pm: Emergency services personnel have freed the trapped woman from her wrecked vehicle after a collision with a B-Double milk taker on the Great Ocean Road on Sunday afternoon.
The HEMS 4 helicopter is about to arrive at the scene to airlift the woman, who is believed to have leg and pelvis injuries, to hospital.
The Great Ocean Road north of Nullawarre at Rowans Road remains closed as emergency teams work the clear the area.
UPDATE 3.09pm: Emergency services personnel are working to free a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of her vehicle after it and a B-Double milk tanker collided on the Great Ocean Road north of Nullawarre on Sunday afternoon.
Police at the scene say the woman has leg and pelvis injuries but is still conscious and breathing.
Damage sustained to the milk tanker in the crash means it will not be able to be driven from the scene.
Another milk tanker is being brought in to pump the damaged vehicle dry so the Great Ocean Road is expected to be closed for a lengthy period.
EARLIER: THE Great Ocean Road is closed north of Nullawarre at Rowans Road after a truck and a car were involved in a head-on collision on Sunday afternoon.
A 40-year-old woman is trapped in the car. She is conscious and breathing and police, ambulance, SES and CFA units are in attendance and working to free her from her vehicle.
Motorists were seen to be directing traffic until emergency services units made it to the scene.
UPDATES to come.