days after beginning classes at her new university.

Eighteen-year-old Michelle Outerbridge, a freshman at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, stepped into a busy four-lane road near campus and was hit by a car, witnesses said.

The road Miss Outerbridge was hit on is known as a very busy four-lane road and witnesses said she might have been looking the other way when she stepped off the sidewalk.

London Police are investigating.

"Michelle was very active and was involved in many activities both in school, in sport and in community projects,'' a family spokesman said last night.

A Saltus class of 2000 graduate, Miss Outerbridge was involved in basketball, debate, swimming and education.

She completed Bronze, Silver and Gold portions of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme before heading to university. She was a member of the Young Leo club and organised fund raising activities for them and the Neverland Foundation.

Michelle won the Bank of Bermuda President's Award for Scholastic Achievement and the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce International Companies Education Award.

She was accepted to the University of Guelph, Dalhousie University and University of New Brunswick but chose to attend Western where she started a course in business studies.

Friends from Israel to San Francisco called the family to express their condolences last night.