Moment beer truck flips on major motorway

Shocking footage has emerged of a truck carrying beer flipping on a major highway.

The truck en route to Byron Bay was driving in the left lane on the Pacific Motorway when it crashed, barrelling through trees and rolling onto its side about 2.15pm on Tuesday.

Paramedics were called to the scene.

A spokesperson for NSW Ambulance said the driver sustained “minor injuries” and was transported to Lismore Hospital.

The truck crash caused major delays for southbound drivers, prompting “heavy” traffic conditions and delays four hours after the incident.

On the same afternoon, another crash was reported further north on Ozone St in Chinderah, near the Pacific Motorway.

The driver, a male in his 30s, became trapped following the crash, requiring NSW Ambulance crews to free him before he was transported to hospital in a Westpac emergency helicopter.

The final crash occurred shortly later, when a driver careened into a house at Banora Point, close to the border of NSW and Queensland.

Firefighters set up fire protection, stabilised the vehicle and set up an exclusion zone, and provided first aid to the passenger of the vehicle and a resident of the house.

It’s understood the car smashed into the front porch of the property while the occupants of the house were sitting outside, hit by debris and broken bricks as a result of the crash.