Senior Constable Mark Hund at the Holbrook Police Station said the 44 year old driver of the Kenworth prime mover and refrigerated trailer was found by police at the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.

Although the man was rumoured to have left the scene, the truck driver in the stock trailer and his learner truck driver passenger spent several hours looking for the absconded driver under his rolled semi trailer.

At about 3am, the driver had collided with the rear of a Kenworth prime mover and B-double stock trailer at the intersection of the Hume Highway and Four Mile Lane about 18 km north of Holbrook.

The unladen stock B-double combination had slowed down to turn in an easterly direction into the Four Mile Lane.

On impact, the prime mover and refrigerated trailer rolled onto its side and continued to slide down the highway for 200m before coming to rest in the median strip.

At the same time a north bound semi trailer was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A pole from the semitrailer that rolled, was flung into the windscreen of the third truck.

As a result, the 59 year old driver from Victoria sustained minor injuries from the glass of the smashed windscreen.

Police, ambulance, State Emergency Service and Rural Fire Service officers assisted at the scene.

Northbound traffic was detoured north of Albury and Holbrook by Roads and Traffic Authority staff until about 9am.