A pavement dweller was killed and another injured after a speeding car ran over them on Santracruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) early on Friday.The victims were sleeping on a footpath on SCLR’s Kurla section when the driver, Kamlesh Kamble, lost control of his Toyota Qualis, drove over the divider and crashed into the pavement. The incident took place around 5 am.Kamble, who the police suspect fell asleep at the wheel, fled the spot but later surrendered at the Tilak Nagar police station. The 24-year-old, from Nalla Sopara, works as a private cabbie and he was returning home after dropping off a family from Mumbai in Dapoli, Ratnagiri.“We believe Kamble fell asleep at the wheel after a long journey. The driver’s side of the car has been badly damaged. Both the rear tyres were punctured in the crash,” said senior inspector Subash Raut of the VB Nagar police station.Kamble has been booked for rash and negligent driving, and also faces the additional charge of hit-and-run.Sunil Upadhyay, 30, was killed in the accident, while his cousin, Prem, was injured. Prem, who was rescued from under the car, is being treated at Rajawadi Hospital.“There were 40 other pavement dwellers on the stretch where the two men were sleeping. Had the car not stopped, more people could have been killed,” said local resident Kundan Sakat. He claimed that many people were forced to sleep on that particular pavement after the BMC demolished their homes on Thursday.Sunil, whose wife died sometime back, lived with his brother Kanvar in Makadwala slums in Kurla. Kanvar said that Sunil and Prem could not bear the heat on Thursday night and decided to sleep on the pavement.“I had just left my house for work when I got a call about the accident. By the time I reached Bhabha Hospital, my brother had died,” Kanva, who works as a sweeper with the BMC, said.