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Twenty lives lost in 12 crashes

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Deadly road toll: Four people died in a two vehicle crash at Pine Lodge on January 5. Photo by Rechelle Zammit

It has been a horror few months on the road in the Goulburn and Murray valleys.

Twenty people have been killed in crashes across the region since New Year’s Eve.

December 31 – Yarroweyah

A woman died in a crash between two cars at the intersection of Labuan Rd and Fowlers and MacArthur Rds.

December 31 – Kaarimba

Longwood’s Jaye Munn died after her motorbike hit a pothole on the Barmah-Shepparton Rd.

January 5 – Pine Lodge

Four people died in a crash between a car and a ute at the intersection of Cosgrove-Lemnos Rd and Pine Lodge North Rd. All four were visiting from India.

January 20 – Creightons Creek

Two people – a man, 82, and a woman, 66, from Benalla – died after their car crashed into a tree on the Hume Fwy.

January 20 – Lancaster

Shepparton man, Bill Eagle, 69, died after a crash between two vehicles on the corner of Lancaster Rd and Dunbar Rds.

January 23 — Kialla

A Kialla man, 22, died after his vehicle crashed into a tree on Kialla Rd, Kialla.

February 7 – Yalca

A truck driver died after a crash between a car and a truck on the Waaia-Bearii Rd.

February 7 – Katandra West

A NSW woman, 74, died after a crash between a car and a truck at the intersection of Sidebottoms Rd and Katandra Main Rd.

March 17 – Waranga Shores

A man from Tasmania died after a crash between his motorbike and a four-wheel drive on the Rushworth-Tatura Rd.

April 20 — Strathmerton

Five people dead, including Cobram’s Debbie Markey, 60, and four international workers — three women and a man who were all aged in their 20s and from Asian countries — after a crash between a car, ute and truck at the intersection of Labuan Rd and the Murray Valley Hwy.

May 4 — Yarroweyah

One man died after a car and truck collided head-on on the Benalla-Tocumwal Rd.

May 18 – Girgarre

A man died after his van and a car collided on the corner of McEwen and Winter Rds just east of Girgarre.