{"id":488595,"date":"2026-01-03T03:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:59:13","slug":"man-charged-with-hit-and-run-death-of-woman-on-darwins-bagot-road-one-week-after-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488595\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with hit-and-run death of woman on Darwin’s Bagot Road, one week after incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern Territory police have charged a 61-year-old man over the hit-and-run death of a woman in Darwin.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Indigenous woman died early on December 27 when she was struck by a vehicle on six-lane Bagot Road in Ludmilla.<\/p>\n

She was found by a passerby and died before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n

Police investigated the death as a hit and run collision<\/a>, alleging the driver failed to stop and help or report the incident, on a poorly-lit stretch of Bagot Road.<\/p>\n

The section had been left in darkness after a light pole was broken in a previous crash and never repaired.<\/p>\n

On Friday \u2014 seven days after the incident \u2014 police arrested and charged the 61-year-old with one count of hit-and-run causing death.<\/p>\n

\"Cars<\/p>\n

Several pedestrians have been killed on Bagot Road. (ABC News: Michael Franchi)<\/p>\n

The NT Police Force said the man was arrested after an extensive investigation coordinated by the major crash investigation unit.<\/p>\n

It included a review of CCTV vision, crime scene examination and analysis, forensic examination and witness statements.<\/p>\n

Senior Constable Craig Tregea said members of the public involved in a traffic crash were legally required to stop, render assistance where possible and notify police.<\/p>\n

“Failing to do so can have serious legal consequences, particularly where a person is injured or killed,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Territory police have charged a 61-year-old man over the hit-and-run death of a woman in Darwin. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,220456,13265,4446,5417,220457,50,13264,13263,7207],"class_list":{"0":"post-488595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bagot-road","10":"tag-darwin","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-hit-and-run","13":"tag-man-charged","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-territory","16":"tag-nt","17":"tag-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115829169442711724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}