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GRENFELL, Central West, NSW, Australia – A man has been killed in a single-vehicle truck crash in the state’s Central West.

Around 5:20pm on Saturday afternoon emergency services were called to the Mid-Western Highway, about 30km west of Grenfell, which is 162 kilometres southwest of Bathurst, after reports a truck carrying a load of gyprock hit a tree and caught fire.

The driver and only person in the truck, a 43-year-old man from Kariong on the NSW Central Coast, died at the scene.

Officers from The Hume Police District established a forensics examination perimeter at the scene and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.

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