A B-double truck rolled on the Camperdown-Lismore Road on Thursday, just minutes after a similar incident about 50km away.
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The truck, carrying industrial salt, crashed about 10am.
About 45 minutes earlier, another B-double truck carrying unleaded petrol rolled on the Glenfyne-Brucknell Road near Timboon at 9.15am.
Camperdown police Sergeant Andy Raven said the driver of the truck, aged in his 50s, was uninjured.
“He was travelling through a stretch of road and the truck has slid off the road and it’s rolled,” Sergeant Raven said.
“The prime mover has stayed upright but the trailer has turned on its side.”
He said the driver was delivering the load of salt to Cobden for a Victorian transport company and was heading south towards Camperdown when the accident happened 500 metres south of the Derrinallum turn-off.
Bags of salt were strewn across the roadside where the truck came to rest.
Sergeant Raven said the driver, from Kerang, was able to get himself out of the truck and ambulance officers treated him for minor injuries at the scene.
“VicRoads have got traffic directions in place and heavy haulage are assessing at the scene and will hopefully have it out of there sometime this afternoon,” he said.
Sergeant Raven said wet weather was a contributing factor and police were investigating the incident. “Inquiries are ongoing to see if the surface of the road contributed to the accident.”
