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Man charged over crash deaths of boy and woman

Police have charged a 23-year-old man with dangerous driving after a woman and a boy were killed. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A man has been charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of an 11-year-old boy and a woman.

He is accused of being behind the wheel of a vehicle that crashed into a tree and caught fire along the Murray Valley Highway at Echuca about 12.30pm on Sunday.

A 26-year-old Moama woman and the Echuca boy died at the scene.

Detectives have charged the 23-year-old and he has been bailed to appear at Echuca Magistrates’ Court on January 23.

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