Florida cheerleader, 15, is killed in horror crash after being struck by mail truck while riding her bike

A teenage woman died while riding her motorcycle on a salient thoroughfare successful coastal Florida, cops said.

Kendra Ahrens, 15, succumbed aft being struck by a US Mail Carrier container motortruck on Santa Barbara Boulevard Wednesday afternoon, arsenic she headed location from her occupation astatine a adjacent waterpark.   

She had been a varsity cheerleader astatine Mariner High and was moving astatine Sun Splash Family Waterpark only for nan summer, her parents said - still reeling from nan nonaccomplishment days later.

The clang occurred connected a agelong of thoroughfare near Mid Cape Terrace successful Cape Coral, wherever nan woman worked and lived.

She's being remembered arsenic 'a saccharine and bubbly girl' whose 'life sewage trim excessively soon' -  by friends who said she 'was loved by truthful galore people.'

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We played chess aft wrestling and cheer believe and she was truthful disappointment because she didn't understand really to play,' wrote 1 friend connected nan teen's online obituary.

Sharing an impromptu photo, he added, She was huffy astatine maine because I wouldn't extremity taking pictures of her

'[B]ut her day was truthful adjacent and [I] needed pictures to post.'

Another added a video of nan pair, recalling, '[E]verytime we would person a sleepover astatine my location we would ever spell successful nan basking tub.

'[I]t was for illustration our regular point to do.'

Adding a photograph of nan dearly departed seated astatine a restaurant, different remembered: '[O]ur first meal together.

'[K]endra being truthful happy because she sewage to spoil me.'

Others besides pointed to nan girl's generosity successful remembrance, while nan origin of nan clang that claimed her life remains nether investigation. The message motortruck stayed down astatine nan scene.

Those who had been astatine nan Tropical Breeze Fun Park astatine nan clip of nan crash, however, were capable to stock immoderate insight, revealing to WINK-TV how nan collision whitethorn person occurred. 

'We had 1 three-person group present astatine nan clip of nan incident,' explained staffer Joey Milligan of a group of mini-golfers.

'They didn't spot anything, but they decidedly heard brakes, crash, and they wondered what was up,' he said.

'They didn't perceive immoderate of nan sirens yet because it was still benignant of fresh. It conscionable happened.'

The girls parents, meanwhile, confirmed Ahrens had been a varsity cheerleader astatine nan Cape Coral precocious school, and had been connected her measurement location erstwhile she was hit.

Shortly aft nan crash, news crews caught glimpses of nan stopped message bearer motortruck surrounded by constabulary tape, arsenic good as Ahrens' savaged upland motorcycle still connected nan pavement.

A memorial has since germinated up on nan agelong of roadworthy wherever she was hit, arsenic cops person yet to authorities who was astatine responsibility for nan incident.

The driver of nan motortruck was not instantly named. 

The investigation into nan collision is being handled by nan Cape Coral Police Department, arsenic 1 section posited that Ahrens was apt deed while coming astir nan area onto Santa Barbara, 1 of nan region's busiest streets

'This area is very bad for riders, and I'm sorry to opportunity personification was wounded here,' Cape Coral resident Edi Recker told NBC-2.

'It's sad.'

Police's investigation into nan clang remains ongoing. A memorial service, arsenic of Sunday, has not yet been held.