BLOUNTSTOWN - A wrecker driver suffered a medical emergency before he drove off the road and hit a utility box Tuesday morning, a passen-ger told the Florida Highway Patrol.
Paul R. Mattice, 56, of Blountstown, was pronounced dead at Calhoun-Liberty Hospital Tuesday. The condition of passenger Kenneth Hopkins, 21, also of Blountstown, is not clear.
Hopkins told troopers Mattice suffered an unspecified medical emergency when he drove onto the shoulder of State 20 west of Blountstown around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday. The 1999 Dodge wrecker continued until it stuck a telephone junction box in the ditch.