Motorist in fatal I-75 crash had heart attack

3/30/2003

DUNBRIDGE, Ohio — An 82-year-old Tennessee man who died Friday night after the pickup he was driving crashed on southbound I-75 two miles north of State Rt. 582 in Wood County's Middleton Township had a heart attack, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

Glenn Caughorn, of Caryville, was pronounced dead at 8:55 p.m. at St. Luke's Hospital.

He was southbound on I-75 about 7:50 p.m. when he crossed the median and the northbound lanes about two miles northwest of here. The pickup then ran into a ditch and hit a fence post, troopers said.