Family of woman killed by Arches National Park gate gets $10.5 million
DENVER — A federal judge this week awarded $10.5 million to the family of a Denver woman who was killed when a metal gate at Utah’s Arches National Park swung open, impaled her car and decapitated her.
Esther Nakajjigo, a 25-year-old Ugandan activist who had moved to Colorado in 2019 to attend the Watson Institute in Boulder, died June 13, 2020, while visiting the park with her husband of two months, Ludovic Michaud.