A high school track coach who was running with a group of students when she was struck in the face by a passing truck's side mirror has settled her suit against the driver for $1 million.

According to plaintiffs attorneys Jonathan Pope and Ronny Hulsey of Gainesville's Hasty Pope, the insurer for the defendant driver, rejected a demand for his $100,000 policy limits before they filed suit.

Chestatee High School coach Stacey Merck was running with four members of the women's cross country track team at around 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning last September along Chestatee Road in Gainesville when the incident occurred.