She then entered the Women's Tour of New Zealand and was 62nd, before she finished second at the Tour de Perth. Hibberd signed to the Cassina Rizzardi A Style Fionucci team in 2009 and moved to Italy to further her career; she expressed a desire to qualify for the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games. During the season, Hibberd partook in the Grand Prix de Dottignies, the Novilon Eurocup Ronde Van Drenthe, the GP Liberazione, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira, the Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol, the Giro d'Italia Femminile and the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini. In the 2010 season, she made an appearance in each of the GP Liberazione, the Gracia–Orlová, the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, the GP Ciudad de Valladolid, the Emakumeen Saria and the Emakumeen Euskal Bira. Before the 2011 season, Hibberd moved to the Cassina Rizzardi A Style Fionucci squad. She competed in two events, the GP Liberazione and the GP Comune di Cornaredo. Hibberd was due to marry her fiancée Cameron Rogers in October 2011. On 6 July 2011, she was with her training partner and fellow cyclist Diego Tamayo in fine weather conditions on a road between Appiano Gentile and Lurate Caccivio to the north of Milan when a car struck her at around 10:45 local time. According to Tamayo, Hibberd was about behind when the female driver of the car steered left and hit her bike. Her riding helmet had come off in the impact and she was killed instantly. Tamayo attempted resuscitation before paramedics arrived by helicopter to tend to Hibberd. On 29 July she was given a funeral at the Ashgrove Baptist Church in Brisbane attended by her family and friends. The organisers of the 2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile cancelled the podium ceremony for its sixth stage out of respect for Hibberd. The competing Australian riders planned to wear black arm bands in Hibberd's memory and they requested a moment of silence be observed to remember her before the seventh stage began. The Carly Hibberd Memorial Trophy was established by her first coach David Budden after Hibberd's father consented to the idea to honour "a tenacious female rider" in 2012.