18-month-old toddler hit and killed by reversing car in Victoria
A reversing car has run over and killed an 18-month-old boy in a tiny Victorian town.
The boy was run over just before 3pm on Monday on a property in Waubra and died at the scene, police say.
A man in his 30s was behind the wheel and investigations are ongoing.
An air ambulance was dispatched from Bendigo in an attempt to save the boy.
It appears workers may have been preparing to load a trailer with chopped wood, when the accident happened.
Investigators believe the driver was reversing down the driveway when the toddler was hit.
The investigation into his death are ongoing.
Fewer than 500 people live in Waubra, a farming town about 35 km northwest of Ballarat.
Earlier, a woman died in a head-on crash with a pole in the Ballarat suburb of Redan just before 2pm.
Senior Constable Alistair Parsons said the woman was yet to be identified and was 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.
