Victoria’s alarming road toll continues to spike with 16 people killed in 12 separate crashes in the past week.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Station and Wallace streets in Seymour after reports a pedestrian had been hit by a car just after 3pm on Friday.
The man, who is yet to be formally identified, sadly died at the scene.
It came just hours after emergency services were called to an incident at the intersection of Murray Valley Hwy and Barmah-Shepparton Rd in Nathalia about 11.30am.
A police spokesman said the crash was a head on-collision involving a car and a semi-trailer.
The female driver of the car died at the scene and is yet to be formally identified.
The 49-year-old truck driver from Charleston in New South Wales stopped at the scene and spoke with police after the crash. The man sustained no injuries.
Emergency services were also called to Colac-Ballarat Rd in Dereel when a car crashed into a tree about 9.30am.
A woman, who is yet to be formally identified, died at the scene.
The tragedies raise the number of deaths on Victorian roads this year to 139 compared to 100 this time in 2022.
Caroline Buttigieg died in an alleged hit-run in Point Cook.
Jeff Long died in a crash in Coldstream.
Just this week, 16 people lost their lives on roads including a woman and three teenagers in a horror crash near Hamilton on Saturday.
Alicia Montebello, 31, Joshua Elmes, 15, Lucus Gorzali, 14, and Meghan Fox, 14, died when their car smashed into a tree in Bochara.
On Monday, a mum of six was involved in a four-vehicle collision on the Princes Freeway in Darnum.
Rhiannon Drake, 30, was front-seat passenger in a Jeep when a truck crashed into it.
Two other people in the vehicle survived but Ms Drake died at the scene.
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Other victims include Caroline Buttigieg, 53, in a Point Cook alleged hit-run and Jeff Long, 63, in a Coldstream crash.
Road Policing Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir said all deaths could have been avoided.
“Since Friday, we’ve had a catastrophe on our roads,” he said.
“None of these are accidents, they’re collisions, they all have a cause and they could all have been avoided.”
Meanwhile, Premier Daniel Andrews urged Victorians to drive to the conditions of the road.
“Please take a bit longer to get there, but getting there is the really important thing,” he said.
“We don’t want families going through what those families are going through right now.”