India, Aug. 9 -- A 70-year-old woman was killed and a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl, were injured when an allegedly drunk 27-year-old man, the son of a police officer, crashed a speeding Mercedes sedan into a hatchback near Narela in northwest Delhi on Saturday morning, police said.

While investigators are yet to receive the driver's medical test results, officers at the scene confirmed that beer and empty liquor bottles were recovered from the Mercedes. Police said the driver was returning from a party. According to police, the silver Mercedes E-Class was travelling at such high speed that when it struck the grey Maruti WagonR, in which a couple in their 40s was travelling with their daughter, the hatchback was flung...