"Actor Salman Khan was so drunk that he fell down, then got up and ran away from where his car ran over a group of people in Mumbai in 2002," testified a survivor in court today.

One person died and four were injured in the accident. Khan, 47, was present for the hearing in a Mumbai court today.

A second witness said that he saw Khan getting out from the driver's side of the Toyota Land Cruiser; the actor's lawyers have argued for nearly a decade that he was not at the wheel.

It was past 2 am when Khan's car drove onto a payment in suburban Bandra and ran over a group of people sleeping on the road.

In December, a Mumbai court ordered a fresh trial for Khan, who is accused now of culpable homicide in the hit-and-run case and faces upto 10 years in prison if convicted.

He originally faced lesser charges of rash and negligent driving. In 1998, Khan spent a few days in prison for killing blackbuck deer, an endangered species, in Rajasthan.-- NDTV