A Statesboro woman, identified by the coroner’s office as Mary Lastinger, 57, of Poplar Street, died Wednesday morning when a commercial truck collided with her as she rode an adult tricycle into the intersection of North Main and Parrish Streets.

Bulloch County Deputy Coroner Richard Pylant released Lastinger’s name later Wednesday. He had pronounced her dead at the scene about 9 a.m., after the accident. Poplar Street is less than a quarter mile from this location, so she was apparently not far from her home. The truck was traveling east on Parrish Street, which continues eastward from there as U.S. Highway 301 North.

“She was on her tricycle, which sits low to the ground, so the truck came through the intersection, and I know the sun is really bad coming that way in the morning time,

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