Two truck drivers die in horrific head-on crash as their rigs collide in the middle of a dust storm
- The accident took place on the Sturt Highway in SA on Thursday morning
- Both b-doubles caught fire, killing their drivers aged 26 and 64
- Emergency crew said they worked under 'horrendous' conditions at the site
- They had difficulty in reaching the crash site due to high winds and low visibility
Two truck drivers have died in a horror head-on crash as they tried to manoeuvre their rigs through a dust storm.
The accident unfolded just after 11.30am on Thursday on the Sturt Highway near Truro, about 100km from Adelaide.
Police said drivers of both b-doubles - a 26-year-old from the Riverland and a 64-year-old Andrews Farm man - died at the scene.
One of the trucks was carrying a flammable load and it burst into flames on impact.
Two drivers lost their lives in a head-on crash after their trucks (pictured) collided in the middle of a dust storm and caught fire.
Police said the dust storm made it difficult for emergency services to get to the scene.
'Police and emergency services have had extreme difficulty getting to the scene due to extremely high winds, low visibility due to very, very heavy dust and the fire itself ... (the dust) then made efforts to extinguish the fires even more difficult than normal,' Chief Inspector Shane Addison told Nine News.
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'The emergency services at the scene are working under horrendous conditions ... visibility at times was virtually non-existent and certainly at the best it was only 10m or so.'
Country Fire Crew Service worked for more than three hours to douse the flames.
The accident unfolded just after 11.30am on Thursday on the Sturt Highway near Truro, about 100km from Adelaide
Brett Morgan, 55, who was in the vicinity of the crash site, said the visibility was about 20m and they had put on their hazard lights.
'There was a strong wind kicking dust up from the paddocks,' he told Geelong Advertiser.
'We could see the back of a truck, which was on fire. The trailer started to burn and pop by the time we had been turned around.'
The Sturt Highway was closed for hours between Truro and Blanchetown due to hazardous driving conditions and debris from the crash.
The two deaths have taken the South Australia's road toll to 73.
It was 43 at the same time last year.
Police said drivers of both b-doubles - a 26-year-old from the Riverland and a 64-year-old Andrews Farm man - died at the scene. The dust storm made it difficult for emergency services to arrive at the crash site for some time
