to back his delivery truck into a Wawa parking lot, when the truck struck the front of Wright's car. Moore testified that when he arrived at the Wawa, there were two cars parked in the loading area. He double-parked on the road in front of the Wawa, put on his flashing lights, and waited for the two cars to pull out. After the area cleared, Moore drove up to the entrance, swung the truck out into the road, and started backing into the parking lot. Moore claims that he was going very slowly, checking both of the rear view mirrors. Wright said that he was only looking in his right mirror, and that he would have seen her car if he had looked in the left mirror. Shetestified that she was stopped, waiting to exit the parking lot, when she saw Moore's truck backing up. According to Wright, there was nothing she could do to avoid the collision because there were cars waiting behind hers.
After the collision, Wright testified that she was scared, but did not believe she was injured. A police officer came to investigate, and issued a citation to Moore for inattentive driving. Moore paid the ticket, but testified that he did so because he did not want to spend the time necessary to contest it. The day after the accident, Wright went to the hospital because she "couldn't move." Wright was treated conservatively, with medication and physical therapy, for approximately one year. In September 2003, Dr. Bikash Bose performed a cervical diskectomy