… A 52-year-old tractor-trailer driver was driving his flat bed truck on a rural country road. As he entered an intersection, a drunk driver pulled out from the side road. The drunk driver’s vehicle struck the truck’s steer axle and lodged under the truck. The tractor-trailer driver, no longer able to steer, lost control and crashed into a nearby house. The drunk driver and his female passenger were both dead at the scene. The damage to the house and surrounding area looked like a war zone. The tractor-trailer driver had minimal physical injuries, but developed post traumatic stress disorder because of this terrible crash. He eventually quit driving tractor-trailer and his marriage broke up. The lawsuit against the estate of the drunk driver was eventually settled by his motor vehicle liability insurance company.
