{"id":597235,"date":"2026-04-10T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:24:10","slug":"police-investigate-suspicious-death-of-woman-whose-car-was-allegedly-hit-by-a-kangaroo-om-avon-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597235\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate &#8216;suspicious death&#8217; of woman whose car was allegedly hit by a kangaroo om Avon Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/police\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Police\">Police<\/a> responded to reports that a woman had stopped breathing near Barkly Homestead on the Barkly Highway in the Avon Downs district about 5.50am on Sunday, April 5 after a car she was in was reportedly hit by a kangaroo.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old woman died at the scene, and a 33-year-old man was arrested shortly after.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9c0e1043-222d-4e30-bec3-c9a564e66a6c.jpeg\"   alt=\"Police are seeking any information or dashcam footage from motorists who were in the area at that time.&#10;\"\/>Police are seeking any information or dashcam footage from motorists who were in the area at that time.<br \/>\n (Northern Territory Police)<\/p>\n<p>He remains in custody, and it is believed that the pair were in a relationship.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police allege a male and female were parked in a dark-coloured Jeep Cherokee beside the intersection of the Barkly and Tablelands Highways on Sunday between 1.30am and 5.30am.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe that the pair used the Jeep to drive from Gympie, Queensland, to Barkly Homestead between April 1 and April 5.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffIt is believed that they passed through Ban Ban Springs, Emerald, Winton, Cloncurry, Mt Isa and Camooweal in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland\">Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police are searching for information or dashcam footage from drivers who were in that area \ufeffat that time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen the vehicle is urged to contact police or make an anonymous report through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police responded to reports that a woman had stopped breathing near Barkly Homestead on the Barkly Highway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-597235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}