A VICTORIAN woman who died in Bali two weeks ago was the apparent victim of a hit-and-run accident on the island's chaotic roads, prompting a belated police investigation into her death.
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Linda Margaret Chilver, 54, of Morwell, died about 11 hours after she was found by a motorcyclist lying on the road in the Bali suburb of Jimbaran, on April 10.
She was taken to hospital and died on the morning of April 11.
An autopsy conducted at Bali's Sanglah morgue early on Thursday found large internal injuries, brain damage, and blunt force trauma to both sides of Ms Chilver's body around the torso and bottom.
Dr Ida Bagus Putu Alit said her injuries had all happened at the same time, and were "consistent with a vehicular accident".
Hit and run is a criminal offence in Indonesia, particularly as the victim has died. But, despite her location and bleeding from her ears, the police at the time of the accident did not launch a criminal probe.
They only interviewed three witnesses - the man who found her, and two who had seen her earlier in the night in a nearby location behaving strangely.
The cause of death could not be established earlier because under Indonesian law, foreigners cannot be autopsied without permission from their families.
Because Ms Chilver was found without any identification, it took Bali authorities almost a fortnight to identify her, and only after that could they contact the family.
A Bali police spokesman could not immediately be contacted by Fairfax Media.
Dr Alit said a toxicology report would not be completed for about two weeks, so it would not be known if Ms Chilver was under the influence of alcohol or any other drug at the time.
Those whom the police did interview said that, around 9 or 9.30pm on the night before she died, Ms Chilver was wandering the streets talking to herself. At one point they said she had embraced and kissed a power pole and also kissed a sign outside a shop.
Members of Ms Chilver's family were said to be coming to Bali to collect her remains, but there was no sign of her daughter, Paige, 19, or other family members at the hospital where the autopsy was conducted.
They plan to cremate her and return the remains to Australia.
- With Amilia Rosa