Daylesford pub crash: five killed as car ploughs into beer garden in Victoria

The accident, which left two children dead, happened just after 6pm at the Royal Daylesford hotel on Vincent Street

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Five people including two children have died after a car crashed into the beer garden of a pub in Daylesford in rural Victoria.

Just after 6pm on Sunday, a white BMW SUV mounted the kerb and hit patrons on the Vincent Street pub's front lawn, police said. Two men, a woman and a child died at the scene.

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