Esther Nakajjigo was a Ugandan human rights activist and newlywed wife when the 25-year-old was killed at Arches National Park in 2020, decapitated by an unsecured gate that is now at the center of a wrongful death trial.
The federal trial began Monday in Utah, where the husband and family of Nakajjigo are seeking $140 million in damages from the U.S. government, arguing in a complaint that the national park was negligent and failed to properly maintain the gate.
When she was 17, she donated her university tuition money to start a private, nonprofit community health center that she named the Princess Diana Health Centre. She was named Uganda’s ambassador for women and girls. By age 25, when she died, “she had accomplished more than most people do in an entire lifetime and had much more to do with her life,” court documents state.The newly married Michaud and Nakajjigo took a weekend trip to Arches National Park as a “welcome break” after months of lockdown amid the pandemic, court documents said.
Nakajjigo was killed instantly. Drenched in his wife’s blood, Michaud instinctively jumped out of the slowly moving car after impact, then got back in to put it in park.Nakajigo’s family and Michaud are suing the U.S. government for negligence as well as negligent infliction of emotional distress on the part of Michaud, who had to witness the grisly scene.
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