Four women returning from line dancing function die in horror weekend on Victoria's roads
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It has been a horror weekend on Victoria's roads with eight people killed in separate car crashes across the state — seven on country roads.
The worst incident happened on Saturday evening when four women died in a two-car collision in western Victoria.
The women were returning home from a line dancing function when their car was t-boned on a country road at Navarre, near Ararat.
A 64-year-old Heywood woman, a 72-year-old from Portland, and two women from Hamilton, aged 74 and 75, were all killed.
The female driver of the second vehicle, a 64-year-old from Stawell, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
She has not yet been interviewed by police.
Speaking from the scene early this morning, Assistant Commissioner Doug Fryer from Victoria Police said it appeared the woman driving alone failed to stop.
"We've had a red Jeep come through a stop sign … it's an 80km zone, it's come through that intersection and it's collected a small Kia, and it's had four elderly women in it," he said.
"We've got families and loved ones and communities grieving at this sort of loss and we're just asking everyone, can you start taking road trauma personally because it can and it does happen to people you know."
"We've got police around the Portland area, the Heywood area, making death notifications to four families. These poor women, four elderly women — mothers, grandmothers, wives, friends, community members — died in the blink of an eye because of a simple mistake of someone going through a stop sign at speed."
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A man died at 2:30am on Sunday at Heathcote Junction, near Wallan, when he apparently lost control of the car he was driving and went through a farm fence.
He died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services. The four passengers in the car were uninjured, police said.
At Bright, in the state's north-east, a man died when he hit a tree while travelling alone along the Great Alpine Road about 10:30pm on Saturday.
Earlier in Preston, a 58-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a bus at the intersection of High Street and Miller Street.
At 3:30am on Saturday morning a woman was killed when the car she was a passenger in left the road on the Melba Highway at Dixons Creek and crashed into a steep embankment.
She died at the scene, while the female driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
At Drysdale, an 18-year-old man was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the car he was in smashed into a power pole.
Another 18-year-old man, who was behind the wheel, suffered minor injuries and a third man was unharmed.
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