New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Days after a six-year-old girl died and her maternal grandmother was injured after being hit by a speeding car in west Delhi's Janakpuri, the family alleged that the child could have been saved had passersby intervened in time.

On Tuesday around 7.40am, six-year-old Preshell Prince was on her way to prep school with her grandmother, Mercy Xavier (57), in an e-rickshaw when a speeding Santro rammed the vehicle near the Janakpuri fire station, causing it to overturn.

The child, the youngest of two siblings, had started prep school last year. Her father, Prince John, works as a supply chain manager at a private medical firm, while her mother, Soumya Xavier, is a nursing officer at Max Hospital in Dwarka. Her elder sis...