The 46-year-old man and 10-year-old boy were travelling along Monbulk Road in Sherbrooke when their vehicle was crushed by a falling gum tree just after 5:30pm yesterday.

The pair, from Cockatoo, south-east of Melbourne, died at the scene.

They are both yet to be formally identified.

The cut trunk of a tree, which was at least 20 metres tall and about a metre in diameter, could be seen at the roadside this morning.

It appeared to have fallen from the higher side of the road, across the road and into the gully below.

Fragments of broken headlights, parts of the car console and pieces of metal were strewn across the roadside.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-15/man-and-boy-killed-by-falling-tree-in-sherbrooke/11308564