A truckie who survived a fiery fatal head-on road crash in Victoria walked 16 kilometres suffering burns before he was found more than a day later in a farm shed, police say.
Police are waiting to question him about the cause of the collision between his B-double truck and a four-wheel drive that killed a South Australian man and critically injuring his teenage passenger.
It was feared the truck driver died in his cabin, which burst into flames on impact on the Glenelg Highway near Hamilton, in the state's southwest, on Tuesday morning.
Instead, a farmer found him alive but suffering burns in a farm shed on Wednesday afternoon, a day and a half after the crash, and took him to the Hamilton Base Hospital.
Police say the farm was 16km from the crash scene.
The driver, a 51-year-old Glen Waverley man, was initially under police guard at the hospital but the guard has been withdrawn, police say.
Major collisions detectives are still investigating the accident.
No charges have been laid.
A hospital official would not confirm the nature of the driver's injuries but said he is in a stable condition.
The South Australian driver of the four-wheel drive, 26, was killed.
His passenger, a 17-year-old boy also from SA, was cut from the wreck and flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with head injuries.
He remains there in a critical condition.
The truck cabin was fully alight when CFA crews arrived.
Before he was found, it was expected forensic experts would have to sift through the wreckage seeking traces of the driver's remains.
