Five men have died on Victorian roads in the space of just 24 hours of the Australia Day weekend.
A cyclist, motorcyclist, pedestrian, passenger and driver died in five separate crashes around the state.
A 50-year-old was killed at 10.30am (AEDT) on Saturday after he was struck by a vehicle while cycling on the Mount Dandenong Tourist Road in Kalorama. A 22-year-old died about three hours later after he lost control of his motorbike in Labertouche.
A 28-year-old man died after he fell from a ute in Tragowel just before midnight, and a 30-year-old pedestrian was killed after he was struck by a vehicle on the Princes Highway in Irrewarra just the other side of midnight.
A man was then found dead around 7am on Sunday by a passing motorist who came across a crashed ute on the Mansfield-Woods Point Road in Piries.
Road Policing Acting Superintendent Dave Griffin said all five deaths were tragic.
"Your heart breaks for these families who are now facing a future without their loved ones," he said.
"It's shocking and concerning to have five deaths in such a short space of time."
Motorists have been reminded to take extra care over the long weekend as it's a peak time for road trauma, Acting Superintendent Griffin said.
Police are out in force on the roads this long weekend, targeting speed, impairment, distraction, fatigue and failure to wear seatbelts.
Between 2009-13 there were 14 fatalities and 352 serious injury collisions on the Australia Day weekend in Victoria.
Share
