Four-year-old boy saves mother taken ill at the wheel

Doctors on Monday praised a four-year-old boy in northern Italy who managed to get help for his mother who fainted while driving due to a heart problem.

When his mother passed out after pulling over, her small son managed to get out of the car and asked a passer-by to call emergency services.

The woman was taken to hospital in the city of Varese, where she is expected to be discharged on Tuesday.

"Mummy didn't look at all well," the boy told hospital doctors.