A car and Ute collided on Pine Lodge North Road, near Cosgrove-Lemnos Road, about 4.45pm on 4 January.

The Ute driver, a 29-year-old Nathalia man, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

There were five people in the car that collided with the Ute, struck a road sign and came to rest in a nearby paddock.

Four of the five occupants from the car died at the scene.

The driver of the car, a 41-year-old Shepparton man, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries where he remains under police guard.

He has been charged with four counts of dangerous driving causing death and remanded to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 8 June.