Cars passing under the Gateway Motorway in Brisbane's northeast have been showered in plasterboard after a truck travelling on the highway above hit a concrete barrier and lost its load.
None of the motorists were injured in the freak accident but two lanes of Lavarack Avenue in Eagle Farm were blocked by the semi-trailer load of fallen plasterboard.
Local worker Lynette Williams' car took the full brunt of the falling plasterboard, which some of her colleagues thought was a plane crashing.
"From the weight of the plasterboard the back wheel was bent outwards and the back of the car was about a foot in the air, it will probably be a write-off," she told Fairfax Media on Monday.
Around eight cars were damaged by the broken building material, which spread across the road and onto the verge covering the area in white dust and shards of broken plaster.
The weight of the falling load also bought a light pole down. The twisted metal pole missed cars but fell across two lanes of the road.
The truck driver has been taken to hospital in a stable condition and will also undergo mandatory testing, police said.
