A Victorian mum and her son were killed in a crash metres from home

A heartbreaking detail has emerged after a Victorian mum and her young son were killed in a horrific car crash on Friday.

A Victorian mum and her eight-year-old young son were just metres away from home when they were killed in a horror smash.

Erin Wilson was turning into her driveway off the South Gippsland Highway at Korumburra when her car was struck from behind and pushed into the path of a truck on Friday afternoon.

The 33-year-old woman and her young son, Bane, died in the crash.

Erin Wilson and her partner Patrick, the mum and her son died in a crash on the South Gippsland Highway on Friday.

“You can’t contemplate this ever happening, especially a parent burying their own child and a grandson. It’s horrendous,” the woman’s twin brother Tristan told Seven News.

The riding instructor had just picked her son up from school in the lead-up to the crash.

On social media friends paid tribute to the pair.

“They were so beautiful and it was gorgeous to chat with [Ms Wilson] when I caught up with her earlier this year,” friend Izzy Kay said on Facebook.

The investigation into the crash remains ongoing and a 59-year-old man from Bass has been questioned and released pending further inquiries.

Originally published as A Victorian mum and her son were killed in a crash metres from home