A TRUCK driver involved in a dangerous crash allegedly tested positive to methamphetamine after the smash.
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Emergency services were called to the Hume Highway at Woomargama about 1am on Tuesday.
The offending B-double ran into the back of another truck in the northbound lanes.
The driver appeared to have tried to avoid the crash before hitting the back of the truck.
The vehicle veered through the median strip, onto the wrong side of the highway, and came to rest on the eastern embankment.
Albury Highway Patrol Sergeant Daniel Finch said a roadside drug test allegedly gave a positive result for methamphetamine.
The driver was taken to Holbrook hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police are awaiting blood tests results.
No drugs were found at the scene.
Sergeant Finch said he believed both drivers were from Victoria.
“The driver of the vehicle at fault was taken to Holbrook hospital,” he said.
“He actually only had a couple of grazes.
“He was complaining of breathing and heart issues.”
The man is yet to be issued any penalties.
“That will be pending, awaiting blood results,” Sergeant Finch said.
He said it had been a lucky outcome, considering the truck left the road.
It came to a stop in a difficult position for recovery crews.
A crane needed to be brought in to remove the truck and two trailers over several hours.
The recovery caused southbound delays on the highway near Woomargama Way.
The driver in the rear-ended vehicle was not hurt.
The incident came after a horror run on the roads in Victoria.
Four drivers were killed in the North East in a week, with a further five people seriously hurt, in what the region's top traffic policeman described one of the worst periods on local roads.
There have been fatal crashes in the Chiltern Valley, Cobram and Benalla.
A Thurgoona man was also killed at Numurkah last week.
