TIMES ARGUS STAFF

Published: February 26, 2010

http://www.timesargus.com/article/20100226/NEWS02/2260354

RUTLAND (AP) — Police say a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in a Rutland parking lot.

Police say 82-year-old Sylvia Bersaw died at the hospital.

Witnesses told police she was walking into Hannaford's supermarket in the Green Mountain Shopping Plaza with her daughter on Tuesday when a vehicle backed up and knocked them over.

Police say the driver, 87-year-old Wayne Miller, of Rutland, applied the brakes before hitting the women.

The Rutland Herald says Bersaw's daughter, 55-year-old Joanne Severance, also was taken to the hospital. Her condition was unknown.