Police say a nine-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, along with two of their parents, are among the five killed
It was one of Daylesford’s busiest weekends. Tourists were taking advantage of a Victorian public holiday on Tuesday to flock to the town for a four-day long weekend.
One of the town’s most popular pubs, the Royal Daylesford Hotel, had families gathered in its beer garden, toasting the sunset and enjoying a relatively warm Sunday in November.
Now, the community is reeling from what happened just after 6pm, when a white BMW SUV mounted the kerb and hit patrons on the pub’s lawn.
A 38-year-old man from Tarneit and his 11-year-old son were killed. The man’s wife, a 36-year-old woman, and a second son, aged six, were injured.
A 30-year-old man and his partner, a 44-year-old woman and her nine-year-old daughter – all from Melbourne’s Point Cook – were also killed.
Police on Monday confirmed among the injured was an 11-month-old baby, who was transferred to the Royal Children’s hospital via the Ballarat Base hospital.
The investigation is in its “infancy”, police said on Monday.
