India, Feb. 24 -- A one-and-a-half-year-old boy was killed, and his mother sustained a fracture in her left shoulder after a car allegedly ran over them while they were asleep on a footpath at Balaram Khedekar Marg in Wadala early on Sunday.

The RAK Marg police have registered an FIR against the driver, Kamal Vijay Riya, 46, a resident of Bhavya Heights, Wadala.

Police officials said Kamal did not appear intoxicated, but blood samples have been sent for testing.

"He was returning home from a family dinner with his parents in the car. A car suddenly cut in front of him, and in attempting to avoid a head-on collision, he swerved right, lost control of the vehicle, and mounted the footpath, hitting the boy and his mother," a senior police...