A WOMAN has died in a collision near Quambatook despite the efforts of passing motorists to assist her.
Witnesses released the woman from her overturned car, but she died shortly after.
Police said that the 70-year-old woman, from Queanbeyan in New South Wales, was killed after losing control of her vehicle and overturning at 6pm on Wednesday.
The incident happened on Quambatook-Kerang Road when the woman apparently lost control on a bend as she drove towards Quambatook, about 7 kilometres from the town.
Marks on the road indicated that her vehicle travelled onto the right gravel shoulder of the bitumen road on a left turn bend before careering across to the left.
After losing control, the car rolled and came to rest on its roof in a roadside culvert.
Police said that passers-by managed to release the driver from her car but she died at the scene before paramedics had arrived.
Police are preparing a report for the Coroner.
Fifty-three people have now lost their lives on Victorian roads this year, compared with 46 at the same time last year.
The fatality occurred five days after a Melbourne man, aged 30, suffered severe head injuries when he fell from a farm utility vehicle in the Dingwall farming district. He remains in a serious condition in the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
