{"id":201400,"date":"2025-04-17T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=201400"},"modified":"2025-04-17T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:11:49","slug":"traffic-chaos-after-major-truck-crash-causes-heavy-delays-for-morning-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=201400","title":{"rendered":"Traffic chaos after major truck crash causes heavy delays for morning commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of Melbourne\u2019s major motorways has been thrown into chaos after a serious truck crash has caused major delays for morning commuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parts of the Monash Freeway have been closed and the traffic lines are banking back for kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truck rollover happened around 6am on Friday on the major artery and all outbound lanes have been closed between Wellington and Police roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extent of injuries are not yet known, but there are fears for the driver as the cab has smashed into itself and almost separated from the tray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers are being urged to find alternative routes and to allow at least an extra 20 minutes to use the detours that are in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also significant delays in the area towards the city despite all of those lanes remaining open, with delays of up to 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers travelling to the city from the southeast should use the Princes Highway to avoid congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Melbourne\u2019s major motorways has been thrown into chaos after a serious truck crash has caused major delays for morning commuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":201401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7988],"tags":[13673,993,16375,8],"class_list":["post-201400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-trucking","tag-killer-trucks","tag-melbourne","tag-monash-freeway","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201402,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201400\/revisions\/201402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}