In the newest fatality, a head-on collision between two vehicles at Kilmany at 6.15am at present claimed the lifetime of one of many male drivers.
In a separate incident, a truck driver died when his truck hit a tree alongside the Hume Freeway in Tallarook at about 4am yesterday.
Just 12 hours later, 4 males had been killed and two had been injured in a horror crash at round 4.45pm, when it is believed a Peugeot travelled into the trail of a ute on the intersection on Pine Lodge North and Cosgrove-Lemnos roads in Pine Lodge close to Shepparton.
The pressure of the crash pushed each automobiles into a close-by paddock and threw the three passengers out of the backseat of the Peugeot hatchback.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Justin Goldsmith stated it is believed the passengers weren’t carrying seatbelts.
“It’s rare that people get ejected when wearing seatbelts,” he stated.
All 4 passengers within the Peugeot died on the scene.
Police are but to verify their identities, with not one of the passengers having been carrying ID, however consider two had been aged of their 40s.
The driver of the Peugeot suffered average accidents and was airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
He is present process surgical procedure for chest accidents at present.
The ute hit the automotive on the passenger facet.
The driver of the ute, a 29-year-old man, was taken to Goulburn Valley Health Hospital.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Goldsmith stated “remarkably” the motive force of the ute had been capable of stroll after the crash.
He stated the scene of the crash was “devastating” and confronting for even essentially the most skilled police.
“It’s incredible traumatic for all emergency services who were there and the community,” he stated.
He stated members of the general public had been shortly on the scene serving to the victims.
Police are investigating how and why the crash occurred.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Goldsmith has stated the six deaths mark “a really awful start to the year” and has urged drivers and passengers to journey with warning.
