CEBU CITY, Philippines — A one-year-old boy was killed when he was run over by a sports utility vehicle (SUV) after he was allegedly pushed away by his mother in Cebu City past 11 a.m. on Monday.
Joy Tumulak, operations head of the Cebu City Traffic Office (CCTO), said they had taken the boy’s mother into custody after witnesses claimed that she pushed the child into the path of a passing Isuzu Altera (YFX 409).
Witnesses reportedly claimed the boy’s mother was drinking liquor at a store along New Imus Road when the incident happened.
The boy reportedly had been following the mother, who kept pushing him away.
The boy fell on the pavement and was run over by the SUV, which was turning right to New Imus Road from an access road in Barangay Lorega San Miguel.
Tumulak said the vehicle’s driver had come from the interior of the barangay to deliver mangoes.