Male driver killed after car and truck crash head-on and catch fire at Wolseley

A driver has been killed in a horrific head-on collision with a truck – just a few kilometres from the scene of another fiery fatal truck crash in February.

A man has died after a truck and car crashed and caught fire at Wolseley in the state’s South-East on Friday night.

A B-double travelling east on the Dukes Highway, about 10km east of Bordertown, crashed head on with a Mitsubishi about 7.30pm.

When crews arrived at the scene they found the truck had rolled, and both vehicles were on fire.

The horrific aftermath of the fatal crash between a truck and a car near Bordertown. Picture: Jeff Anderson, First On Scene Media

The truck driver, a 58-year-old Barossa man, was taken to the Flinders Medical Centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The car driver was found dead at the scene.

The Dukes Highway will remain closed for some time this morning while the scene is cleared and the truck is towed. Police are asking motorists to avoid the area.

The man is the 43rd life lost on our roads in 2021, compared to 42 at the same time last year.

It follows another fiery fatal crash in February involving trucks on the Western Highway at Serviceton, only a few kilometres from Wolseley, in which three trucks crashed in the queue of the border checkpoint between SA and Victoria.

Three trucks crashed and caught fire at the SA/VIC border checkpoint at Serviceton in February. Picture: 7News

The three trucks caught fire, and a 46-year-old South Australian truck driver died at the scene.

It forced the Police Commissioner to order a major inquiry into border checkpoint operations involving snap border closures.

A Victorian trucking union blamed the SA Government for the truck driver’s death, describing the border closure as a “knee jerk” reaction.

Steven Lawrie, the man who died in the February crash, was remembered as a “good mate” who touched the lives of many.

Steven Lawrie died in a fiery crash on the SA and Victoria border in February. Picture: Facebook