Friends Remember Cyclist Killed on VT Campus

A Virginia Tech spokesperson tells FOX 21/27 the accident happened around 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

He says 61-year-old Bonnie Tinker of Oregon was on a bike when she collided with a dump truck at the intersection of West Campus Drive and Drillfield Drive.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Tinker was attending a conference on campus with the Religious Society of Friends.

Traci Hjelt called Tinker's death "an extraordinary loss, because she was so good in not only living what she believed, but being the public voice."

Friends say Tinker was an advocate for gay and lesbian families and even founded a group called Loves Makes a Family.

She and her partner, Sarah Graham, had three children.