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An 81-year-old Lebanon man who was riding a scooter died Monday afternoon when he was struck by a car making a turn on Route 202 in Alfred, state police said.

Russell Faxon was driving the scooter behind a large box truck when an oncoming car turning left struck Faxon.

The driver of the car, 65-year-old Laura Melisi, of Acton, was attempting to make a left turn into an ice cream stand.

She turned after the truck passed, but did not see Faxon on the scooter. Faxon was not wearing a helmet.

Melisi and a passenger in the car were not injured. Faxon died at the scene.

Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau....

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