Emergency workers are waiting on a tanker to start decanting thousands of litres of petrol and diesel from another tanker that rolled on the Hume Highway north of Melbourne on Wednesday night.
The highway, about a kilometre north of the Wallan-Whittlesea Road, Upper Plenty, has been closed since around 6pm (AEST) after the tanker was involved in a collision with a car.
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) and Metropolitan Fire Brigade had 20 units spraying foam over the spilled liquid to try and quell the dangerous vapours.
It’s believed the overturned tanker contained 67,000 litres of distillate (diesel) and 16,000 litres of Vortex petrol.
The CFA expects to have the fuel cleared in the early hours of Thursday morning and the highway reopened for traffic.
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