Fatality After Big Rig Driver Has Medical Emergency

A truck driver died Sunday morning in a wreck that the Patrol says was caused by a medical problem.

The 58 year old driver suffered some kind of issue; and ran off the road near Milan on Highway 6. He was pronounced dead at the scene, identified as Roy Harris of South Carolina.

And a head-on crash just before two Sunday morning on Missouri 151 in Monroe county. The patrol says that 51 year old Charles Walter ran off the road, over corrected, and ended up in the other lane where he hit a car.

That vehicle driven by 25 year old Samuel Pearman. Both drivers taken to the hospital with serious injuries.