A trucker's wife who said she was injured when a trailer struck her husband's parked rig received a $400,000 settlement. In 2008, Polly Snell, then 43, was sleeping in a bunk in the cab of the 18-wheeler when Leandro Telles' tractor-trailer made a tight turn and dragged across the front of the Snells' cab, which was parked at a truck stop in Amarillo. The impact knocked Snell out of the bunk and she hit her head and neck on a cabinet as she fell to the floor. She was diagnosed with a herniated cervical disc and underwent fusion surgery. She said she continues to suffer from debilitating pain and hand tremors. Telles' attorney argued that the collision was minor and did not cause Snell's neck problems. The settlement was reached in mediation.
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