UPDATE: All Melbourne-bound lanes of the Hume Freeway have re-opened in Barnawartha on Friday evening.
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VicRoads said the speed remained set at 80km/h while crews cleaned-up the site at Indigo Creek Road.
EARLIER: A truck driver has been taken to hospital after rolling his vehicle on the Hume Freeway at Barnawartha on Friday morning.
Wodonga police said officers were investigating two separate accidents at Chiltern and Barnawartha.
Victoria police said emergency services were called to a single vehicle truck rollover about 4.40am on the Hume Freeway near Barnawartha.
Southbound traffic diversions remain in place.
"The male driver was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries," police said.
VicRoads asked detouring motorists to avoid Chiltern-Howlong Road owing to a second incident.
Ambulance Victoria said paramedics were called at about 4.40am.
"They treated a man in his 40s who was taken to Albury Hospital in a stable condition with an arm injury," Ambulance Victoria said.
Vicroads said a truck rollover occurred at Indigo Creek Road, Barnawartha, and motorists should detour via the Murray Valley Highway to Rutherglen, then Rutherglen-Springhurst Road to the Hume Freeway.
"Please avoid Chiltern-Howlong Road due to a second incident," VicRoads said.
"The scene is under the control of emergency services. The Hume Freeway will reopen as soon as it is safe to do so."
Real-time traffic conditions are available at traffic.vicroads.vic.gov.au or via the VicTraffic mobile app.
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