Truck and ute collide at Pine Lodge intersection

Shepparton Highway Patrol Sergeant Janne Kennedy said the tipper truck, which was also towing a trailer, was travelling east on Cosgrove-Lemnos Rd, while the ute was travelling north on Pine Lodge Rd and intending to turn right on to Cosgrove-Lemnos Rd when the collision occurred.

The trailer on the tip truck rolled in the collision, spilling its load of dirt over the road.

Sgt Kennedy said the 70-year-old man driving the ute and the 66-year-old man driving the heavy rigid truck were fortunate not to receive serious injuries.

Neither driver — the only occupants of the vehicles — were injured.

The ute, however, was badly damaged.

Cosgrove-Lemnos Rd was closed for many hours while dirt from the truck was cleared off the road.

It was the second crash between a truck and smaller vehicle in the Goulburn Valley on Wednesday.

A 44-year-old Kialla woman died after her car and a truck collided at another rural intersection — this time in Tatura — only an hour later.