India, Nov. 3 -- A 52-year-old man and his 22-year-old son from Pelhar were killed on Sunday morning after a speeding truck allegedly hit their autorickshaw while they were exiting a service road on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway (NH 48) near Virar.

According to the police, the accident occurred at 9.30 am near the Pelhar petrol pump, when Shehzad Ghulam Usmani and his son Atif Shehzad Usmani, residents of Pelhar village, were on their way to work in Mumbai in their rickshaw when a speeding truck, travelling from Gujarat towards Mumbai, rammed into the rickshaw and a motorcycle while attempting to overtake another vehicle.

On being alerted by some passersby, the police arrived at the scene, rushed the father-son duo to a nearby h...