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July 19, 2011

Report: Fatal wreck occurred in 'driving rainstorm'

From Staff Reports

A single-vehicle wreck Saturday in Florida left one Rocky Face resident dead and another injured, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News newspaper.

A story on the paper’s website said John Morris, 49, was driving west on Interstate 10 near mile marker 92 in Walton County around 10 p.m. when his 2008 GMC Yukon hit standing water and began to hydroplane, leaving the road and striking a pine tree in the median. His wife, Jodi Susan Morris, 46, a passenger in the SUV, was taken to a local hospital but later released.

A Panama City Beach television station, WJHG, said the wreck occurred during a “driving rainstorm” east of Defuniak Springs.

The newspaper, citing a Florida Highway Patrol report, said both individuals were wearing seat belts and alcohol was not a factor.

Love Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.

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