A man and a boy are dead after a tree fell onto their car in the Dandenong Ranges, in Melbourne's outer east.
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 on Sunday.
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.
Knox Highway Patrol officers spent several hours at the scene last night.
Almost 30 millimetres of rain has fallen in the Dandenong Ranges over the past 24 hours.
Investigators will examine whether wet weather played a part in the deaths.
