A Texas lumber mill worker was on his way home from work when he was horribly injured when he drove his pick-up truck into the side of an 18 wheeler trailer that was blocking his lane of traffic on a dark Texas rural highway. The driver of the 18 wheeler was on the job and had missed his turn. Instead of driving to a safe location to turn around, the truck driver tried to back his trailer down a side gravel path along a Texas Farm Road. While attempting this dangerous maneuver, his trailer was blocking our client’s lane of traffic as he approached. As a result of the documented difficulty in recognizing and reacting to an 18 wheeler trailer blocking the lane of traffic at night, a horrific collision occurred when our client’s truck had an underride collision with the trailer. The trucking company settled with our client after presentation of the injury and liability factors to their insurance carrier.