(KLZA)-- A truck driver from Cocoa, Florida suffered moderate injuries in a single vehicle wreck Wednesday afternoon in Holt County, Missouri.

The Missouri Highway Patrol reports 39-year-old Fernando Suarez was transported by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph.

Suarez was southbound on Interstate 29 approximately three miles north of Mound City when his truck traveled off the west shoulder of the highway and into a ditch, impacting an embankment before coming to rest.

Suarez was not wearing a safety device at the time of the wreck.

The Holt County Sheriff's Department and Mound City Fire Department also responded to the scene of the wreck that occurred shortly after noon.