Daylesford pub crash: five killed and two families devastated after car ploughs into beer garden in Victoria

Police say the driver involved in the accident at the Royal Daylesford hotel on Vincent Street was breath tested and no alcohol was detected

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Five people - including two children - who were killed after a car crashed into the beer garden of a pub in Daylesford in rural Victoria were members of two family groups" who were visiting the area, police say.

Just after 6pm on Sunday, a white BMW SUV mounted the kerb and hit patrons on the front lawn of the Royal Daylesford hotel, police said.

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