A driver is lucky to be alive after a head on collision on Incinerator Road near Foxtrap.

Traffic was at a standstill both ways after a head-on collision between a car and a dump truck near the Highway maintenance Depot on Incinerator Road.

Coming around a sharp turn, a silver car appears to have smashed head-on into the truck. The larger vehicle rode up over the car, crushing the windshield and pinning the driver between his seat and the dash as his car veered into a ditch.

Traffic should be moving again soon, crews are clearing out.

Here you can see where the dump truck rode up over the windshield, with the impact point etched into the road beyond. #nltraffic pic.twitter.com/vaEYRGvk2E

— Andrew Hawthorn (@HawthornVOCM) June 20, 2019

The driver of the truck was also injured when his vehicle veered off the road away from the car and struck a boulder.

The truck, according to witnesses, rode up over the hood of the car, smashing the windshield and pinning the driver with the dash.

Both vehicles then swerved offroad, with the truck hitting this boulder. pic.twitter.com/WxJEKImJ9A

— Andrew Hawthorn (@HawthornVOCM) June 20, 2019

Rescue crews were able to free the driver of the car whose injuries appear serious.

Traffic flow has since resumed.