THE Loddon Valley Highway was closed for two hours on Sunday after a car and truck collided, sending the car off the road 2km south of the Kerang power station shortly before midday.
The 64-year-old driver of the car was initially trapped in her vehicle but when freed by emergency services workers was able to walk to a waiting ambulance stretcher.
She was taken to the Bendigo Hospital in what police described as a stable condition.
The driver of the truck was uninjured but shaken, police said.
First Constable Brett Vine said police had spoken to the truck driver and were waiting to speak to the car driver as part of their investigation.
He said the car had been travelling south on the highway and the truck was headed north when the vehicles made contact, causing the car to shoot out sideways and off the road.
“It was a good outcome in the circumstances,” he said.
“Being in a 100km/h zone it could’ve been a lot worse.”
Police, ambulance, firefighters and SES workers assisted with the rescue and control of the scene.
The road was closed from around 12pm to 2pm, with traffic diverted via the Murray Valley Highway, while the rescue was underway and VicRoads cleaned oil and hydraulic fluid from the road.
The truck, an empty livestock carrier, which lost a lot of hydraulic fluid, had to be towed away.
