IT ONLY took 24 hours for another three people to lose their lives as a result of road trauma in Victoria.
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On Tuesday the Bendigo Advertiser reported the number of people killed on the state’s road had reached 218, but by Wednesday afternoon, three more people had died on the roads.
Two elderly pedestrians died after being hit by vehicles in Melbourne in separate incidents.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a vehicle hit a cow on the Hume Freeway at Barnawartha North.
The four occupants had gotten out of the car when another vehicle travelling in the same direction struck two of them, killing a man in his 50s.
The three deaths bring the number of people killed on Victoria’s roads in 2016 to 221, an increase of 33 on the same time last year.
In central Victoria, 16 people have lost their lives in 2016.
The number of lives lost through road trauma in Victoria has been creeping upwards for the past three years.