A semi-trailer carrying plasterboard on Brisbane's Gateway Motorway has crashed into a guard rail, with much of the load smashing onto a road below.
Parked cars on Lavarack Avenue in Eagle Farm were covered in sheets of smashed plasterboard.
The road was also covered in plaster, and the area closed to all traffic.
The Queensland Ambulance Service said no-one was injured on the street below when the plaster fell about 10:30am.
The truck driver was taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in a stable condition.
Emergency crews remained on scene with a clean-up underway on both the motorway and Lavarack Avenue.
Rachel Curry, who works in Laverack Avenue at Freedom Property, said she saw a "puff of debris".
"It was like a movie scene — pretty full on," she said.
"I just turned around and saw a puff of debris coming off the side of the motorway [and] fall onto the ground below.
"I was about 20 metres away when it happened — fortunately my car wasn't damaged … but it is close by."
She said some cars had been damaged but the bulk of the plaster board had landed in the middle of the road.
"It's an industrial area, so most of the people walking in the area are going to work so it's lucky it happened when it did and not earlier," she said.
"Lucky no-one was driving there at the time because they would have been squashed."
