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Canterbury roads closed following crashes

7:33am

(Source: 1News)

Several crashes on State Highway 1 in Canterbury have closed roads this morning.

A car caught on fire after a collision with a food truck at the intersection of Hoskyns Road and SH1 in Rolleston just before 6am.

No one was injured but the intersection was closed.

And a car and a truck collided on SH1 in the Saltwater Creek area around 6.30am.

Further details were not yet available.

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