A "HAPPY and talented" student was killed in a horror e-bike crash at her university campus. Sophie Goode, 18, died on Tuesday following the incident at Nottingham campus. The Sport and Exercise Science undergraduate had been riding an electric bicycle shortly before sustaining serious injuries in the early hours of the morning.
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Despite the best efforts of medical staff, she was pronounced deceased a short time later. Her sister Charlotte Goode paid tribute to her sibling in a social media post and said Sophie had been cycling with a friend to watch the sunrise. She wrote: "It is heartbreaking. She was going to watch the sunrise with her best friend.
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"She was loved by so many of us and she always will be. We were all so proud of her and continue to be.". In a separate statement, her family paid tribute to a "beautiful daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin and friend". They added: “Sophie was a happy, beautiful and talented girl who was loved by everyone who knew her.
“When she wasn’t singing or dancing, she was planning which live music concerts to go to with her younger sister. “She really was the life and soul everywhere she went. “She just loved life, loved people and was surrounded by her soulmates at university, where she had quickly established herself as part of the Nottingham women’s cricket family.
