A MAN has died after crashing his motorbike into a bush.
The 27-year-old rider was killed by a deer after a short, two-mile ride in Victoria.
His body was found near a farm at the foot of the Mount Lyne Highway.
He was from St Kilda in south-west Victoria and had been studying engineering.
Police have appealed for anyone who may have seen the man to contact them.
A coroner has opened an inquest into the death.