'Too much speed for narrow lane': 7-year-old boy crushed to death by car driven by 15

GURGAON: A seven-year-old boy playing outside his house with his father was crushed to death by a car being driven by a teenager in Maruti Kunj on Friday evening. Witnesses recalled the sudden roar of a Maruti SX4 as it sped down the narrow lane and crashed into Yohan, a Class II student. The boy was dragged for almost 20 metres on the bonnet of the car before the 15-year-old driver slammed the brakes. “It all happened in a flash. The car was going too fast for a lane as narrow as this. We heard a loud thud and rushed out to see what had happened,” said a local resident. Yohan was the only son of Ashwani Kumar, a building materials supplier and his schoolteacher wife. Residents gathered at the scene, pulled the underage driver out of the vehicle and informed police. Yohan’s famil