Florida Man Hurt in Holt County Accident

A Florida truck driver was left with moderate injuries after a one-vehicle accident in Holt County Thursday.

According to the accident report from Troop H of the Highway Patrol, 39-year-old Cocoa, Florida resident Fernando C. Suarez was driving a 2020 Volvo tractor trailer with a 2019 Vanguard box trailer attached southbound on Interstate 29 about three miles south of Mound City at 12:02 P.M. when his truck went off the west shoulder of the highway.

The truck went into a ditch where it impacted a ditch and came to rest off the south side of the interstate.

Suarez was reportedly not wearing a seat belt a the time and suffered moderate injuries He was taken by Atchison-Holt Ambulance to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph for treatment of his injuries.