Elderly couple dead in Vic crash

An elderly couple are dead after their car hit a tree near the South Australian border.

The couple's car veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit a tree on the Glenelg Highway at Strathdownie in western Victoria.

The woman, in her 80s, died at the scene on Friday afternoon.

The driver of the car, a man in his 80s, died on the way to hospital.