Bicyclist Struck by Elderly Driver in South Kingstown Has Died

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI—The 22-year-old Massachusetts woman struck by a car on Route 1 near Jerry Brown Farm Road last week has died.

Mary Wilk, of Cheshire, MA, was pronounced dead on Saturday, four days after she was struck by a car driven by an 88-year-old South Kingstown woman.

Wilk was transported to Rhode Island Hospital with critical injuries after the crash, which happened at around 12:15 p.m. Wilk was struck from behind along a stretch of Route 1 that runs parallel to the Atlantic-facing beaches in South Kingstown.

Wilk was an accomplished athlete in high school as well as a gifted scholar. She was the valedictorian of the class of 2012 at Hoosac Valley High School and went on to study at the University of Vermont.

She was also an avid bicyclist and had planned to spend her summer leading bike trips. On the "Teen Treks" blog this past May, she wrote that "I love biking around seeing new places while on two wheels.

"There is nothing better than getting to the top of a really big hill to see what you accomplished and seeing the world from a new prospective," she wrote.

She loved cooking, being goofy with her friends and telling "super corny jokes," she wrote.

Speed and alcohol or drugs were not a factor in the crash, according to police.