A single vehicle crash in rural Victoria has left a man dead and closed a major highway.
Emergency crews rushed to the Goulburn Valley Highway at Arcadia, south of Shepparton, at about 12.50pm on Friday.
Victoria Police confirmed has confirmed that the male driver died at the scene after his car hit a tree near the Dawson Road intersection.
The man is yet to be formally identified.
Forensic crash officers have launched an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the fatal smash.
The Goulburn Valley Highway at Arcadia, south of Shepparton, was closed early on Friday afternoon with traffic likely to be impact well into Friday night
The Goulburn Valley Highway remains closed in both directions between Murchison-Violet Town Road and Union Road.
Motorists are urged to avoid the area and take an alternative route via Murchison-Violet Town Road and Euroa-Shepparton Road.
Traffic delays are expected well into Friday night.
Anyone with information or dashcam footage is asked to call Crime Stoppers.
The crash comes a week after a horror pile-up involving an Uber and two other vehicles 28km away at an intersection in Pine Lodge.
Ruby Crowley, 16, was airlifted to a hospital in Melbourne and died two days later.
