The deadliest road crash in Victoria in more than a decade has devastated a tight-knit community in the state's north-east as family members from overseas struggle to come to terms with the loss.
Five people were instantly killed when the car they were travelling in crashed into a truck near Strathmerton on Thursday.
The driver was a woman in her 60s, who is understood to have been a Cobram local.
Her four passengers, a man and three women, are understood to have been foreign seasonal workers, from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
"It's devastated the community," former Moira Shire mayor Libro Mustica said.
The area in Victoria's north-east has a strong agricultural economy and relies heavily on seasonal workers from other countries.
Many of them live at caravan parks, like the Oasis, which is run by Mr Mustica. He said many of his guests knew the victims personally and were left reeling without their usual support systems.
Visibly distraught relatives arrived at Melbourne's international airport on Saturday.
"We raised him for 25 years and he's gone," one woman said in Mandarin about her son.
"We really can't accept it."
Devastation felt across towns
It is understood the four overseas victims worked at the JBS abattoir in Cobram.
"It's more shock than anything right now," said Sharron Leslie, property manager at the El Sierra Motel in nearby Barooga.
Many of the workers staying at Ms Leslie's motel knew the victims personally, she said.
"They're one bunch of beautiful people and they try to help each other as much as they can," she said.
"A lot of them worked with these four lives that were lost and that's affecting them very hard.
"It's just time now, I suppose, to try and heal."
The grief was palpable about 10 kilometres west of Cobram, in Yarroweyah, as the community gathered together for Saturday football and netball.
In the home game against Jerilderie, all players wore black armbands as a mark of respect.
"Everybody's felt it," said Yarroweyah Football Club president Ben Henderson.
"It's just sent a shock wave through the whole community.
"It's devastating, really."
Calls for changes after another fatal crash
While the community comes to terms with the loss, focus has turned to the state of the road on which the crash occurred.
The fatal collision happened at the intersection of Labuan Road and the Murray Valley Highway.
Police allege a white Mercedes driven by Christopher Dillon Joannidis, 29, failed to give way and slammed into the Nissan Navara carrying the five victims.
The Nissan ute span out of control, hitting a B-double milk tanker.
Mr Joannidis faced Shepparton Magistrates' Court on Friday and was released on bail.
There were two fatal crashes on the same section of highway last year, and a third a short distance to the south. The road toll in that small area is 11 lives lost in just 14 months.
"It is time that the state government starts to move into regional Victoria, to start doing something about these secondary roads," Mr Mustica said.
"These secondary roads are not up to standard. And we need to bring them up to standard, because the cost of life is too much."
Acting chief executive of the Moira Shire Council, Joshua Lewis, this week told the ABC the council had previously raised concerns about the intersection.
