Aboriginal pedestrians dying at a troubling rate in the NT

Since 2012, 70 Aboriginal pedestrians have been killed in the Northern Territory, including Kumanjayi Napurrula Dixon on the Stuart Highway in May. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

Kumanjayi Napurrula Dixon took the route 74 bus through Darwin’s outer south-eastern suburbs, got off at the last stop, and kept walking south along the Stuart Highway.

It was a Monday night, and the Anmatyerre grandmother was going to see her family at their camp near Coolalinga. She never made it. Between getting off the bus and making it to camp, she was allegedly hit by a car and died.