8 dead in weekend road incidents in Australia's Victoria

MELBOURNE, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Two men have died following a collision between a car and a motorcycle in southeast Melbourne on Sunday night, taking the weekend road death toll in the state of Victoria to eight.

Victoria Police said in a statement that emergency services were called to the collision at an intersection in Brighton East, 12 km southeast of central Melbourne, around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Two men, the driver of the car and rider of the motorcycle, died at the scene.

A child passenger in the car was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The incident took the number of deaths in road incidents in Victoria since Friday to eight.

Police said that four of the deceased were riding motorcycles and three were driving cars.

A 75-year-old female pedestrian also died after she was struck by a vehicle in the state's southwest on Saturday afternoon.

Later on Saturday afternoon, police said that two teenagers were injured when the e-bike they were riding collided with a car in the suburbs of Geelong, 65 km southwest of Melbourne.

The male passenger was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries while the second boy, aged 17, was taken to hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.

According to the latest data, as of Saturday, there had been 220 road deaths in Victoria so far in 2026, down from 247 at the same point in 2025.