Kai McDonald,16,was in sitting in the front passenger seat of the car when it crashed into another vehicle.
Safety measures have been put in place on almost 500 kilometres of the state’s public roads pending work to fill potholes or fix cracking and other damage.
A 43-year-old speech pathologist is dead and a three-year-old boy has been seriously injured after a water tanker ploughed into a preschool’s playground in a small town north of Melbourne.
The family of retiree John Bato,who was killed when a car mounted the footpath and struck him while he was walking in Epping,have paid tribute to a “loving brother” and “really kind man”.
The 63-year-old Mill Park man was on the footpath when a silver hatchback crashed through a pedestrian crossing barrier.
Now,the impact of that is becoming clear:wait times have ballooned,service centres have been forced to close,customer satisfaction has plunged and staff say overworked colleagues are quitting in droves and not being replaced.
The $10 billion tunnel project is already years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget,and now there’s a scramble to ensure it gets completed by next year.
Emergency crews were called to a major arterial in Endeavour Hills after reports a child had been hit by a car.
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