A toddler has been run over and killed in the driveway of a rural Victorian property.
The 18-month-old boy was struck just before 3pm on Monday at Waubra.
Paramedics were called but he died at the scene, on Settlement Road.
A man in his 30s behind the wheel of the car was the boy's father, local police reportedly told Fairfax Media.
Investigations are ongoing.
Fewer than 500 people live in Waubra, a farming town about 35 km northwest of Ballarat.
The tragedy comes just less than three weeks since a three-year-old boy was hit by a ute in the driveway of a Robinvale home, near the Victoria-NSW border.
Kidsafe Victoria says an average of seven children aged under 15 are killed each year in driveway collisions.
Another 60 are seriously injured.
Earlier, a woman died in a head-on crash in the Ballarat suburb of Redan.
Senior Constable Alistair Parsons said the woman was still to be identified and the only person in the car when it left the road and hit a pole near the intersection of Pleasant Street South and La Trobe Street just before 2pm.
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