A woman and her son were killed when their Maruti car was rammed by a speeding Scorpio at Modi Nagar in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district on Thursday, police said.

The incident occurred on National Highway 58 when Jyoti (27), a resident of Ganga Nagar in Meerut, was coming from Meerut to Modi Nagar with her son six-months-old son and other family members. Her brother was driving the car.