Truck driver charged after metal debris damages hundreds of cars on NSW motorway

Saturday, 17 May 2025 17:29

A driver has been charged after a truck spilled an estimated 840 kilos of metal fragments on a major NSW road, which damaged the tyres of more than 300 cars.

A driver has been charged after a truck spilled about 840 kilograms of metal fragments on a major NSW road, which damaged the tyres of more than 300 cars.

Police allege the driver had an unsecured load when the debris tipped onto the M1 Pacific Motorway between Wyong Road and Mount White on Friday, May 2.

The spill resulted in major traffic delays before the major road was reopened almost 10 hours later.

The steel fragments on the side of the road on the M1.

Many of the vehicles with tyre damage were stopped in the breakdown lane.

There were no reports of any injuries.

Police said officers spoke with the driver of the vehicle, a heavy vehicle tipper towing a trailer, about the matter on the day of the incident.

Police will allege the secondary locking handles on the trailer were not properly engaged resulting in about 840 kilograms of metal spilling onto the roadway over about 30 kilometres.

The 46-year-old man was served with a future court attendance notice for driving a heavy vehicle not complying with loading requirements.

He is due to appear at Hornsby Local Court in July.

DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

More from Latest News

'Felt like a bomb': Explosion tears through US fertility clinic

At least one person is feared dead in the explosion in the California city of Palm Springs.
'Eat the tariffs': Trump's warning to retail giant

As Trump has jacked up import taxes, he has tried to assure a sceptical public that retailers and automakers would absorb the additional expenses.
Boy's calls to dad's phone just to hear his voice after fatal crash

Samarveer Singh has been calling his father's phone just to hear his recorded voicemail message.
Woman allegedly killed by her husband and his brother

Two men have been charged with murder after a young woman died at a home in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, last night.
Russian drone strike in Ukraine kills 9 people, officials say

In Bilopillia, a period of mourning was declared and a local community chief called the day "Black Saturday".
Two people killed in horror NSW highway crash

This is the second fatal crash along the major road this week.
Man arrested after climbing cruise ship's moorings in Sydney Harbour

The man was seen climbing and hanging from the ropes tying the "Carnival Adventure" Cruise ship to Circular Quay about 3pm today.
'To easy lol': Ten inmates escape from US jail through hole in cell wall

Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail on Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said.
US Department vets TV show where immigrants would compete for citizenship

The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a reality TV pitch where immigrants would compete for American citizenship, according to a spokesperson.
What you can expect from the weather this winter

Winter is fast approaching, but Australians have barely had to reach for their woolly warms this year due to unusually hot temperatures throughout autumn. So will the next three months change anything?
Stunning photography shows what working as a scientist can look like

Nature's 2025 'Scientist At Work' reveals its winners of the competition.
Rare flooding event creates striking oasis in the outback

Floodwaters are causing one of the country's rarest events in outback South Australia.
Push for three million workers to get a pay rise above inflation

The Australian Government made a submission today to the annual wage review, recommending that "the Commission award an economically sustainable real wage increase to Australia's award workers."
'Prove I didn't steal it': Confusion over Aussie supermarket's receipt request

The same question was posted to the AusLegal page on Reddit by a frustrated customer in Victoria, who walked into Coles with a trolley full of groceries from Aldi.
All ten people who buried time capsule in 1985 found, Telstra says

The group of schoolchildren won a competition to help Telstra, then known as Telecom, celebrate its 10th anniversary by burying items in a time capsule in Adelaide.