Ellen Leah Isabel Watters (4 April 1988 – 27 December 2016) was a Canadian competitive cyclist from New Brunswick.
[1] Watters joined the Stevens-The Cyclery (later The Cyclery-Opus [2]) women's development team in 2014.
Watters died following a collision involving her bicycle and an automobile during a training ride in Sussex, New Brunswick on December 23, 2016.
[4][5][6] The driver struck her from behind as they were travelling in the same direction on a straight section of Riverview Dr East.
After the announcement of her death, hundreds of cyclists gathered in major cities calling for the implementation of the 1-meter law to be finalized in the provincial legislature.