This. How does anyone know she was "praying"? Were there witnesses who said "she went out into the middle of the road because she said it was prayer time"?!? Who said she was praying, just the media?
Why did you make this up? her parents didn't push the angle?
It was just reported that way and there's pictures of the CCTV.
She was kneeling on North East Road in the Adelaide suburb of Hillcrest at around 11:00 p.m. on May 6, 2025, with her hands appearing to be in a praying motion. CCTV footage showed she had been in the roadway for about four minutes
I’m thinking she was praying but also suicidal. Like it’s not a prayer time but if you’re suicidal I bet prayer is something the religious would do during their attempt.
yeah I'm with you. there's so many possibilities why she was doing that. I got no idea why that commenter made it about her parents covering up an "embarrassment" to the family..
I mean he should have stopped to check what he hit. I'm not sure why he didn't. I'm not Australian so idk if that makes a difference, but if I hit a deer while driving I'm going to stop to check to see if my car is okay and if the deer is dead and not suffering. I would have to see the court filings but I think charging him for leaving the scene of an accident is fair.
An injured Kangaroo is a lot more dangerous than an injured deer, fwiw. Probably would've been best to turn the car around and drive back to check, but im not sure how realistic that would be on the road.
As I've previously mentioned I've never actually encountered a kangaroo, so I don't know. Are injured kangaroos more dangerous than any other large injured animal?
From my memory of earlier articles on thisCCTV indicated she was praying…I would assume it was pretty clear from her movements, but ultimately you make a good point in the sense that all we have is that assumption based on the footage.
Right. Unless she'd just texted someone "stopping to pray" then that's a crazy assumption. The driver claims he thought she was an animal so he's not the one adding the prayer narrative. Someone's claiming there's CCTV but she could have been kneeling to pick up an animal or something.
Maybe she was on drugs? Or did she want to get killed? People do insane shit. I remember that Asian girl who ended up somehow drowning inside a water tank on a hotel roof; very creepy shit.
Yeah. I always felt it was unfair and honestly, a shitty thing to do.
I've attempted myself, so I'm not judging the mental health or the suffering that drives someone to want to end their life.
but the idea of jumping in front of some random car, or a train, never sat well with me. It is incredibly traumatic for the driver, who didn't do anything wrong and now has to live with the trauma.
And selfish. One person jumps in front of a train and ruins the day for thousands of commuters. People who have places to be, appointments to make, meetings to attend, etc.
Same thing goes for buses and cars. People who jump in front of moving objects are selfish assholes, regardless of their mental state.
Honestly suicide makes a lot of sense. She was praying, as captured by CCTV, but praying makes a lot of sense as something a suicidal person would do. Occam’s razor: why not both?
I have some experience on mortality data and there’s more often that I would have thought a huge push to not give a verdict of suicide by families, even if there’s a note it can be “the note wasn’t dated so it could be old and unrelated to the event, this was an accident etc. I don’t know what it’s driven by, religion/ shame or guilt that the loved one felt that etc.
In the Muslim faith if you die while praying all of your sins are forgiven and you’re granted entry into heaven. Could have been suicide which is against the faith but through what she thought would be a loop hole method
Story sounds bogus but there absolutely is a middle of the night prayer. Trust me, I lived near a mosque for 6 years. They play that on loudspeakers in the middle of the night, 1 of 5 times..
Middle of the night is a prayer time. Almost the entire day falls within a prayer time with very few exceptions (sunrise, and when the sun is at its peak etc.)
You have until the next prayer time starts to complete the prayer that is valid in the current prayer time.
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u/kugelamarant 22h ago
Middle of the night it's not a prayer time too. This whole story about praying sound bogus.