Students and instructors at North Island College's campus in Courtenay, B.C., are grieving the death of a student who died of a brain injury following a collision with a cyclist on the night of Sept. 16.

Carissa Wilson, executive director of the North Island Students' Union, says Max Poley, 24, had worked his regular evening shift at the NISU Eats cafeteria that evening and was walking home when the incident happened.

Wilson says Poley was taken to intensive care at Victoria General Hospital and had been recovering, but then suffered an inoperable brain bleed and died on Monday.

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"He was talking to family. He had even cracked a couple of jokes," she told CBC News.

"But he was still drifting in and out of consciousness. And head

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