A MILK tanker driver was left needing stitches to his forehead after his B-double crashed on a Hume Freeway exit ramp about 1am Sunday.
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Leading Senior-Constable David Richards, of Chiltern police, said the southbound Murray Goulburn driver was leaving the freeway at the Indigo Creek Road exit when trouble struck.
He said the truck locked up and jack-knifed with the prime mover and first trailer rolling, while the second trailer stayed upright.
Speed is being investigated as a possible cause.
The driver, who turned 53 on Saturday and is from Tawonga, suffered a gash to his forehead requiring stitches and was taken by ambulance to Albury hospital for concussion tests.
About 15,000 to 17,000 litres of milk spilled from the first trailer with the road blocked for several hours.
Leading Senior-Constable Richards said Victoria's Environment Protection Authority was also investigating the matter, although there was no waterway in the immediate vicinity of the milk spill.
Another 15,000 to 17,000 litres was stored in the second trailer.
