ironic = a very unexpected outcome. what's unexpected changes from person to person.
anyway, people die every day. this news about someone dying is hardly ironic.
the fact that she is an expert on a motorcycle and died due to her own incompetence on the
motorcycle is ironic.
the fact that she died on a motorcycle is the opposite of ironic. people's #1 concern about
motorcycles are their lack of safety. doctors call motorcyclists "organ donors".