TWENTY people have died on Victoria's roads in the past 15 days, the latest a man and woman killed in a head-on smash in Melbourne's west.
The pair were in a sedan that collided with a van at about 5am (AEDT) on Monday in St Albans, with a passenger from the van left fighting for his life in hospital.
The fatalities follow four people dying on Victoria's roads on the weekend, while a newborn baby died after a crash earlier in the week.
Victoria's October road toll now stands at 20 just halfway through the month compared with 21 people who were killed over the entire month of October in 2011.
Detective Sergeant Mark Amos from the Major Collision Investigation Unit said police could not explain the deadly fortnight on the state's roads.
"I wish I had an answer," he told reporters at the scene of the St Albans crash.
"You scratch your head and wonder what on earth drivers are doing on the roads, because we all know they're a dangerous place to be and unless we start taking some really serious care this is going to continue to happen.
"It's high time we as a community woke up to ourselves and realised we've got a massive responsibility when driving a motor vehicle and you've got to take that responsibility very seriously."
Det Sgt Amos said the public could not become indifferent to deaths on the road.
"Any collision where there's a loss of life is an absolute tragedy in the extreme, it's something we can't tolerate and we can't continue to accept as being the norm," he said.
The Victorian road toll for the year stands at 225, seven more than at the same time last year.
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