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A man has died after he was struck by a falling tree branch at a camping ground at Yarrawonga, Victoria on Tuesday night.

Emergency crews were called to the campsite at Loop Track about 7pm, after reports the tree branch had fallen onto a car.

The driver died at the scene and a teenage boy was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A woman was taken to hospital for observation.

Trees proving deadly 

The death follows a fatal tree collapse in October, in north-east Victoria. 

A 27-year-old Victorian man died following the collapse of a gumtree at a camping ground at Kevington. 

Police said emergency services responded to reports a tree had fallen on a tent and vehicle at Burnt Bridge Camping Ground, a remote area about half an hour's drive from the town of Mansfield near Eildon-Jamieson Road.

In August, a 77-year-old man died and a female passenger was critically injured after their car was hit by a falling tree in Victoria's south-west.

Emergency crews were called to Main Road at Gellibrand, in the Otways, after a tree fell onto the car, trapping the pair, both from Forster in New South Wales.

The Yarrawonga death is the third tree-fall death in regional Victoria in three months.