Woman Killed in Motorcycle Crash Months After Fiancé Died in Separate Accident: 'Forever Loved and Missed'

“She passed doing what she loved, being in the mountains and riding motorcycles," Mia Valencia's father said

An Arizona family is mourning the loss of a young woman, who died in a motorcycle accident just months after her fiancé died the same way.

In a press release shared with PEOPLE on Wednesday, May 15, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said deputies from the Rincon District responded to a reported single-vehicle collision last week. Preliminary findings suggested that the motorcycle Mia Valencia was on had been “traveling at a high rate of speed south on General Hitchcock Highway.”

“While negotiating a turn, the motorcycle crossed left of center and struck the guardrail on the opposite side of the road. The driver suffered minor injuries while Ms. Valencia was ejected off of the motorcycle and landed down an embankment,” the release stated. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

In a GoFundMe account set up to bring “rider awareness” on the 21-year-old’s behalf, father David Valencia said that "she passed doing what she loved, being in the mountains and riding motorcycles.”

In an update shared on Wednesday, May 15, David thanked the community for their support and also remembered Mia’s late fiancé, Alexander “Xander” Ryser.

The 24-year-old died at the scene of a crash on March 11, after his motorcycle hit a truck that was attempting a left turn on North Oracle Road and West Cresta Loma Drive, KOLD-TV reported on March 17.

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“She loved Xander and I know he came to get her,” David said of Mia and her partner on the fundraising platform. “They will be forever loved and missed.”

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David now hopes to warn others of roadway dangers so they don’t meet the same fate as his daughter and Ryser.

“Slow down. There are areas out there you can drive fast,” he told KOLD-TV. “Understand your bike, understand how fast you’re going. You don’t get a second chance. My daughter didn’t.”

The investigation remains ongoing.

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