MUMBAI, May 30 -- A day after a 74-year-old man lost control of his SUV in Mulund, killing a woman and critically injuring a two-year-old boy, the child succumbed to his injuries at Fortis Hospital, taking the death toll in the accident to two. Police have booked the senior citizen driver for causing death by negligence and rash and negligent driving endangering human life. According to the Mulund police, the accused, Mohan Seshadri, 74, a resident of City of Joy residential complex in Tambe Nagar, Mulund West, was questioned on Thursday and Friday regarding the circumstances that led to the fatal crash. During interrogation, Seshadri reportedly told investigators that he was driving his Kia Seltos out of his housing society and was attempting to merge onto a connecting road when he noticed a tempo approaching from the opposite direction. In an effort to cross before the tempo arrived and avoid waiting, he accelerated, but allegedly lost control of the vehicle. The SUV then crashed into an iron pole, mounted the footpath and ploughed into pedestrians who were buying vegetables from a roadside vendor. "During questioning, the driver stated that he accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes. The vehicle gained speed and ran over pedestrians. After the accident, he immediately shifted the injured victims to Fortis Hospital. Unfortunately, two of them later died," said a police officer. One of the deceased was identified as Niyati Rajiv Shah, 44, a homemaker residing in the nearby Sky Tower building in Tambe Nagar. Police said Shah had stepped out to purchase vegetables when the SUV struck her. She is survived by members of her joint family. The second victim, Radhesh Raiya, aged two, was the son of Dr Sagar Raiya, a pulmonologist who runs a clinic on Devidayal Road in Mulund. According to investigators, the child had accompanied his mother, Pooja Raiya, to the vegetable market when the SUV first rammed into him. Pooja also sustained injuries in the accident and is undergoing treatment. Residents of the area said the Raiya family had welcomed the child after a long wait, making the tragedy particularly heartbreaking....