Woman fatally struck by car in Alice Springs was lying on highway, police say

Death is the 11th pedestrian fatality on Northern Territory roads in the past 18 months, majority of which have been Indigenous people

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A woman lying on a highway in central Australia was killed when she was hit by a car, authorities say.

Northern Territory police said the 21-year-old woman was struck in Alice Springs's southern suburbs in the early hours of Tuesday morning.