UPDATE, 2.30pm: A pilot vehicle involved in guiding a wide vehicle load moving wind farm equipment was involved in a minor collision with truck near Condah on Tuesday morning.
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Senior Constable Brendan Medley, of the Portland police highway patrol unit, said the pilot vehicle was at the rear of the wide load when the driver pulled out to look down the road.
The pilot vehicle collided with a prime mover and semi-trailer going in the opposite direction.
"The pilot vehicle clipped the truck going in the other way," he said.
"It was nothing major. There was some damage to the pilot vehicle and tyre scuffing and side mirror damage to the truck.
"We cleared the scene about 9.30am after the accident at about 7.15am," he said.
Earlier: Emergency services are currently on the way to a truck accident near Condah.
Police say the driver of the truck is not injured after a rollover near Condah, 40 kilometres north of Portland.
Police will assist with traffic management and it's expected that heavy haulage will be called it to assist with the recovery of the truck.
On Monday morning a 53-year-old B-double driver died in a single vehicle accident near Branxholme, only 15 kilometres from Condah.
Police are considering fatigue or a medical episode as possible contributing factors in that crash.
Officers have been told the B-double was travelling along the Henty Highway just after 3am Monday.
The prime mover veered off the road and crashed into a tree.
Senior Sergeant Asenjo said that on average there was one truck rollover in the south-west each week.
There have been seven lives lost in the south-west so far this year compared with nine for all of 2018.
The road safety chief said heavy vehicles were involved in the past three south-west fatal collisions.
"Heavy vehicles are not always at fault but the sheer fact that they are involved often leads to significant road trauma," he said.
This year's Victorian road toll is 71 compared with 49 at the same time last year.
According to VicRoads, there were 13 truck rollovers reported to Regional Roads Victoria in the south-west last year.
So far this year there have been six, although it is understood those statistics are based on police figures, which only involve collisions in which injuries have been suffered.
Many accidents are not reported.
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