The truck was carrying 36,000 litres of fuel along the M1 Princes Motorway west of Wollongong when it caught fire before 9am on Friday. 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) West Wollongong: A 2km exclusion zone has been established as a truck carrying 35,000 litres of unleaded & E10 petrol burns on the Princes Motorway near the Princes Highway. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Firefighters battle the fuel tanker fire by the side of the freeway. “A fuel tanker full of fuel could have caused extreme damage,” he told reporters in Wollongong. Images posted on social media show massive flames erupting from the tanker parked on the side of the road.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2019 00:33 UTC