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About Ellen Watters
- Ellen Leah Isabel Watters (4 April 1988 – 27 December 2016) was a Canadian competitive cyclist from New Brunswick.
- She won first place in Tour of Somerville in 2016 and was a member of UCI team Colavita/Bianchi.Watters joined the Stevens-The Cyclery (later The Cyclery-Opus ) women's development team in 2014.
- She stayed with the team through the 2015 and 2016 seasons until she signed with UCI team Colavita/Bianchi for the 2017 season. Watters died following a collision involving her bicycle and an automobile during a training ride in Sussex, New Brunswick on December 23, 2016.
- She was 28. Following her death, her family and friends called for the implementation of "Ellen's Law", which would require motorists to provide a minimum of 1-meter of distance when passing cyclists, increasing safety for cyclists within the province of New Brunswick.
- 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.
- The law, which is already in place in many Canadian provinces, was introduced in the New Brunswick Legislature on February 10, 2017.
- The law was given royal assent on May 5, 2017, and came into effect on June 1, 2017.
- The push for "Ellen's Law" in New Brunswick also prompted the same one-metre law to protect cyclists to be passed in Prince Edward Island.
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