Family calls for road-safety changes after cyclist dies in N.B. training crash
SUSSEX, N.B. — A competitive cyclist who died after being hit by a vehicle while training in New Brunswick was a positive, vibrant woman who was poised to go professional next year, her friends said.
Ellen Watters, 28, was badly injured in a Dec. 23 crash outside Sussex, N.B., and her death announced Wednesday.
“She was always a very happy, smiling, positive person. She always had 10 times the energy of anyone else,” said Vince Caceres, owner of the Ottawa-based cycling team she was a part of. “She loved to laugh. She always had an idea — a crazy thing to do. She really gave a vibrancy to the team. She always knew what to do to cheer people up.”
The RCMP say Watters was riding around 2:30 p.m. Friday when she was struck by a vehicle travelling in the same direction in Lower Cove. A statement from Watters’ family posted on the Cycling Canada website said she no longer had any brain function after the collision.