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A driver who struck and killed a Pakistani international student who was praying in the middle of an Adelaide road didn't stop because he thought he hit a kangaroo.

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International student is killed on Australian street after kneeling in the middle of the road to 'pray'

A young driver has avoided jail time for a hit-and-run that killed a woman who was kneeling in the middle of a road appearing to pray.

Ashton Friend, 20, had previously pleaded guilty to causing death by careless use of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident after he struck and killed international student Samia Malik with his car on North East Road in Hillcrest, Adelaide on May 6, 2025.

The South Australian District Court previously heard Malik had been kneeling for four minutes in the middle of the road before she was hit by Friend's car at about 11pm.

Judge Anne Barnett said CCTV vision showed Malik's hands were in what looked like a 'praying motion' in the moments leading up to her death.

Friend had been driving home from his girlfriend's house when he struck Malik. The court heard that he was 'at a loss' as to what had happened, which was why he failed to stop.

'He hadn't been aware that there was something on the road. He heard this noise,' defence barrister Jane Abbey KC submitted to the court in September.

'What he hoped was that it had been an animal, or something like that.'

Abbey also submitted that due to the limited damage sustained by his car, Friend assumed he hadn't struck a person.

'He was checking his rear vision, but he did not see her - he should have,' she said.

'Initially, he just did not realise he had hit a person.'

The court heard that Friend realised what had happened when he saw news reports about Malik's death which sent him into a 'state of paralysis'.

He was identified by police a week later and arrested.

'He just could not reconcile what he had done', Abbey said.

The court heard that Friend was not affected by drugs or alcohol and was not speeding when he struck Malik.

In an apology read to the victim's family, Friend said he could 'only imagine the indescribable pain' they were feeling.

'I will have to carry my failures with me for as long as I live,' he said.

'I am deeply sorry for the life that was lost, the grief and the trauma caused to Samia's family and loved ones.

'There is no excuse for my actions, or my failure to act - and I should have acted. I do not place responsibility on anyone else; it is mine alone.

'I take full responsibility for my actions and their consequences. I stand before this court with genuine remorse and a commitment to reflect on, learn from and be accountable for what I have done.'

In a victim impact statement read aloud by prosecutor Frank Niemann, Malik's sister Qudisya Malik told told the court that grief had become a part of her everyday life.

'There are moments where the pain feels just as fresh as it did on the day we lost her', the statement said.

'Every important milestone reminds us that someone deeply loved is missing. There is always an empty place where Samia should have been.

'Nothing can ever replace Samia. We have lost a daughter, a sister, a friend and a remarkable young woman who had so much life ahead of her.

'Samia will always remain part of our family. She may no longer be physically with us, but she continues to live on in our hearts.'

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16201165/amp/International-student-killed-Australian-street-kneeling-middle-road-pray-Driver-learns-fate-court.html

Height of madness 😠, nawa oooooo .

While I may not be in support of the driver's action, but why would any reasonable human pray in the middle of the road or on the road?

I support the action of the driver, other slowpoke will learn from that and if they refuse, they will learn in a hard way.

If and only if we Nigerians were not cowards, this is the kind of news we would be reading here every Friday on front page

Asserting dominance. That’s why they ‘pray’ anywhere. They are bent on taking over the world and we are calling them idiots. They are winning. Western Europe is about to fall to them.

Na wah even this one wey dey western world still never get sense

I would hit him reverse hit him and climb him to make sure he is dead .
Stupid set of people

72 Virgins are rubbing his broken spinal cord for healing as speak. In preparation for the 72 pregnancies he will do on them.

Omo o..

The Muslim thinks she's in Nigeria where anything goes.

She be kangaroo obviously na

This should be part of 1000000 ways to die

Just become a mu$/?m

A cold bottle of Hero beer for that driver..
Kill more kangaroos and become a shareholder at Hero beer company...

edogu:
While I may not be in support of the driver's action, but why would any reasonable human pray in the middle of the road or on the road?

It's regrettable nut still serve as detterence to other slow pokes.

There's Muslim prayer center in my street that yr in Nigeria and one Friday I was come home and these guys left their hall and block the road to pray. I wanted to crush every one of them until they all stood up and ran away then I break, some were hitting my car but the message has already been passed. Then no try am again

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Maybe he thought he wanted to detonate a bomb

How can any sane human being be praying in the middle of the road ?
Even if you are that "pressed " that you need to pray , what happened to the sidewalk. There is something fundamentally wrong with religious fanatics if we are being honest.

They must get sense, by fire or by force.

You guys cannot continue being such a nuisance to the rest of us.

Beautiful girl ended her God given precious life like that because of religion!

i still belive it is a kangaroo , doesnt look like human at all

I keep wondering how this people think....

Ok when its time for pray, just face east, then kneel n pray. Did they say you can kneel n pray anywhere? On a busy road?

Well monkey dey sleep, trouble dey go wake am up

They need to offer him state protection
These guys can be vicious with revenge
Though I know Islam will mean peace in a place like Australia and not submission

This one no be Muslim. He is an infidel. Because I know the Qur'an never said that. That's good for him.
Maybe, he'll now go and meet his 7 virgins

The driver is innocent as fxxk.

Islam and stupidity sha

Maybe the girl is tired of life Maybe she heartbroken and wanted to end it all but is afraid of doing it herself because I can't fathom how a reasonable human being will pray on the road instead of the mosque or even her house or other secured environment...am just so sorry for this young lady to witness this kind of violent end...May God have mercy on her poor soul

Any Muslim, will tell you I dont think shes praying

Muslim dont just knell and start prayer anywhere you can think of

And on a highway - no ways

Nothing Musa no go see for gate😎

People are fed up, stop provoking people with troublesome behaviour, blocking people from accessing the road is a great confrontation and provocation. Nobody cares about your religion don't disturb others with it.

Right step in the right direction.

That religion and common sense can’t co exist in one brain..

Why should you block the road to pray?
Something that is even illegal in Saudi Arabia

Seriously? A student? Of course they’re praying. Sounds like a lovely, straightforward moment. AcadaWriter