Loose concrete girder hits bridge and brings Monash Freeway to a halt in bad start to week
December 13, 2011
Commercial vehicle chaos at the start of Melbourne’s week has continued overnight with a collision with a Monash Freeway bridge causing enormous disruption in the city’s east.
One lane of outbound traffic was opened just before midday.
The accident, which damaged a bridge pylon at the Ferntree Gully Road on-ramp, occurred when a 60-tonne concrete girder shifted from a trailer.
A Dandy Premix Concrete truck coming the other way lost control as the driver tried to avoid the debris and hit the centre dividing barrier, where it came to a halt on the wires.
Both drivers were reportedly not seriously injured.
VicRoads has cleared the on-ramp bridge for use and the freeway should be fully open to traffic by late afternoon.
On Sunday, a Toll Liquids tanker spilt fuel that ignited at a petrol station and, yesterday, a tradesman died when his plumbers van exploded, due to a gas-cylinder leak.