The two men, both in their eighties, were among the 50 pedestrians who died across Victoria in 2011.

Another woman died after she was hit by a train at Clayton station in April but police said the fatality was not part of the road death statistics.

The rising number of pedestrian deaths across Victoria has caused great concern from members of the emergency services.

Police have found that out of the 50 pedestrians who died, 33 were at fault.

Senior Sergeant Wayne Elston of the Nunawading highway patrol said that although police had seen an improvement in safety

on the roads, pedestrian safety had become an issue.

"A lot of it's just people not looking when they're crossing the roads," he said. "It's really an attention thing. Everybody's just too busy now and worrying about what they're going to do and not what they're doing at the time."

Senior Sergeant Elston said pedestrians needed to get back to basics on road safety.

"Look left, look right, look left again. Get across the road."

Provisional police figures showed that 288 people suffered fatal injuries on Victorian roads last year. There were 212 men killed and 76 women. The number of young people dying on the roads last year fell to 58, 10 less than 2010.

Fatalities for the City of Monash were:

■ A 22-year-old man - the car he was a passenger in had lost control and hit a tree in Glen Waverley.

■ A 57-year-old man - his motorbike and another vehicle collided in Ashwood.

■ A 33-year-old woman - her car was rear-ended while driving on the Monash Freeway in Mount Waverley.

■ A 25-year-old-man - his motorcycle and another car collided in Notting Hill.

■ An 87-year-old pedestrian - his motorised wheelchair was hit by a reversing vehicle in Oakleigh South.

■ An 82-year-old pedestrian - he was walking in front of a car park in Oakleigh South.