Boxing Day ended with another life added to the road death toll with a fatal collision occurring in Coldstream.
Emergency services were called to Maroondah Highway where a car and truck collided about 1.15pm.
One of the passengers in the car, a woman, 62, from Tranmere in South Australia, sadly died at the scene.
The driver of the car, an Essendon man, 63, was taken to hospital with critical injuries.
Another passenger in the car, a 62-year-old South Australian man, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The truck driver, a Frankston man, 42, was not injured and stopped at the scene.
He has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and appeared before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 29 December.
As reported by the Herald Sun, the man was released on bail and will face the County Court of Victoria this year.
