VERO BEACH — An 81-year-old man using a wheelchair died Monday after a car struck him along a roadside in Vero Beach, authorities said.
The incident happened shortly before 7 a.m. on 30th Street, just off U.S. 1 and south of Aviation Boulevard, according to Vero Beach police spokesperson Officer Kelsea Callahan.
The man, whose name was not released, was traveling along the edge of the two-lane road — which lacks sidewalks — when an eastbound BMW sedan hit him, Callahan said…