Medical episode leads to SGI mishap
A 51-year-old Panama City man, stricken by a medical issue while driving on St. George Island Thursday morning, got caught up in a collision with trees along the roadway.
According to a press release from the Florida Highway Patrol, at about 9:05 a.m. the man was driving a pickup truck west on Leisure Lane. near Park Avenue when the incident occurred. on St. George Island. Also in the truck was a 36-year-old man from Lithonia, Georgia and a 24-year-old man from Panama City.
The release said the driver “suffered a medical episode … and brought (the truck) to a complete stop in the roadway for a brief moment.”
The truck then began to slowly travel off of the roadway to the left. And when it did, its front left bumper struck several small standing trees and brush before coming to rest facing north in the brush.
All three men were wearing seatbelts at the time. No further information was provided regarding any emergency response or the condition of the driver.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.