A 10-year-old boy has been killed in a second vicious traffic accident, days after a Sichuan driver was arrested on suspicion of deliberately killing a 3-year-old boy.

A truck knocked a woman and her son down after it turned left onto a road on Saturday afternoon in Chengdu, the capital city of southwestern China's Sichuan Province.

After the driver ran the pair over, the woman was lying between the wheels while her son was wedged in front of a back wheel. The driver did not get out of his vehicle but reversed the truck. Witnesses say they thought the driver was trying to release the boy until he unexpectedly started to drive forward.
 

Police rush to the scene after a vicious traffic accident in Sichuan Province on Saturday afternoon, December 23, 2006.

The local official website newssc.org reports the accident killed the boy and seriously injured the woman, who is receiving treatment at a local hospital.

Witnesses say the woman was riding an electric bicycle with the boy as a passenger when the accident occurred. They were not seriously injured after the initial impact, but the driver killed the boy and injured the woman when he drove forward.

Police have arrested the driver and an investigation is underway.

On Wednesday afternoon, a 3-year-old boy called Liu Xingzhi was killed after a driver knocked him down, then reversed the car over his prone body in Dujiangyan city in the province.

(CRI December 25, 2006)