On April 20, 2023, five people travelling in a Nissan Navara died when a B-Double cannoned into them at Strathmerton. The driver in that incident was sentenced to five and a half years in jail in January this year.
The crash was also the second fatal incident on Victorian roads on Monday. At 7am, a 32-year-old man died after his car crashed into a tree in the Wimmera town of Kaniva, in Victoria’s far north-west.
Victoria’s road toll for 2025 now stands at 279, the same as at this time last year. More than half of these have been deaths on rural roads.
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