The Northern Territory's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is considering whether to appeal a judge's decision to allow a fatal hit-and-run driver to avoid prison time.

Warning: This story contains content some readers may find distressing and the name of an Indigenous person who has died.

On Monday, Darwin man Jake Danby, 24, was sentenced over the crash in June last year in which he struck two Aboriginal pedestrians near a shopping centre in the city's northern suburbs before fleeing the scene.

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