Three people have died, including a four-year-old boy, after wild weather battered Melbourne on Thursday night.
The boy tragically passed away in hospital after he was hit by a falling tree in Blackburn South about 6pm.
The child was taken to Box Hill Hospital before being transferred to the Royal Children’s Hospital where police said he died later that evening.
A woman, 36, also died when a tree fell on a ute in Fernshaw, 75km east of Melbourne, about 6.50pm.
Police said the ute was travelling along the Maroondah Highway when it was struck by a falling tree.
The Parkdale woman, who was the front passenger in the vehicle died at the scene, while the driver, a Flinders man, 24, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
A third person, a 59-year-old Tecoma man had his car crushed while he was leaving a shopping centre carpark at the corner of Terrys Ave and Ena Rd in Belgrave, in Melbourne’s east.
Police said the tree toppled on his car about 6pm and emergency crews worked to free him but he was unable to be saved.
About 50,000 homes are still without power on Friday morning while the State Emergency Service received at least 1700 calls for assistance, mostly in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
An SES spokesman said there were 1233 call-outs between 2pm and 8pm on Thursday.
That included 1032 calls for trees down.
The hardest-hit areas were Lilydale and Emerald in Melbourne’s outer east.
Trees also fell across train tracks, causing several major train lines in Melbourne to be suspended.
Buses were needed to replace trains on the Belgrave, Cranbourne, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Hurstbridge, Pakenham and Sandringham lines.
A transport department spokesman said crews were on their way to clear debris and restore power across the lines.
VicRoads warned motorists to drive with extreme caution, with traffic signal outages at intersections along the Burwood Highway, Maroondah Highway, Canterbury Road, Springvale Road, Stud Road, Blackburn Road and Warrandyte Road.
Other areas affected by the storm included Hastings, Knox, Whitehorse and Bellarine.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning on Thursday, advising parts of the state could see winds averaging up to 70km/h, but some areas along the south coast were already hit with more than 100 km/h winds.
Before 4.30pm on Thursday, Mt Gellibrand recorded a gust of 124km/h, with 102 km/h at Cape Otway, 100km/h at Port Fairy and 89 km/h at Avalon.
The Bureau warned peak gusts of up to 120 km/h were eexpected on the Alpine peaks.
A warning for damaging winds was in place for people living in parts of Central, East Gippsland, South West, North Central, North East and West and South Gippsland Forecast Districts.
It included areas such as Warrnambool, Geelong, Melbourne, Wonthaggi, Bairnsdale and Orbost.
Winds moved from the south coastal areas towards the greater Melbourne area.
The cold front then moved towards central coasts in the early evening and reached the Gippsland coasts later on Thursday night.
“These winds are associated with the passage of a cold front and will have a rapid onset and will not persist for long, gradually easing following the passage of the front,” the bureau said.
“Damaging winds will contract eastwards tonight, easing below warning thresholds in the west during the late afternoon or early evening, central parts during the evening, and the East Gippsland coast by early Friday morning. Winds over the Northeast ranges will ease during Friday morning.”
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The State Emergency Service advised people to watch out for falling trees and powerlines, move vehicles away from trees and secure loose items like outdoor settings, umbrellas or trampolines.
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