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Eugene Bicyclist struck by driver on August 8 has died

A bicyclist who was severely injured after being hit by a car near East 8th Avenue and Hilyard Street on Aug. 8 has died.

The Eugene Police Department reported Elizabeth Cardenas Figueroa, 21, passed away Monday.

Cardenas Figueroa sustained a traumatic brain injury and multiple broken bones, police said, and had been in the hospital since the accident.

According to a Go Fund Me page created for her, Figueroa was a University of Oregon student from Mexico who had hoped to become a lawyer.