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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 moving 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.

Wild weather hits Victoria

The State Emergency Service received 26 calls for help in north-east Victoria's Hume region as severe storms lashed the area overnight.

Yarrawonga was the hardest hit area, with the town's SES responding to 17 calls from 6pm Tuesday to 6am today, primarily for fallen trees. 

Unusually high rainfall is expected around Victoria today, with areas of most concern being in the east and north-east of the state. 

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 gum tree 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.