Tree saves woman from out-of-control truck

A truck driver was killed but a 95-year-old Houston woman was unharmed Thursday when an 18-wheeler crashed into a tree she planted in her yard 40 years ago. The driver of the truck lost control of the vehicle when he had a heart attack. Paramedics took the man, whose name was not reported, to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Alice Wright said she slept through the truck crashing into her yard, stopping just short of her bedroom, but credits the Live Oak tree she planted there with saving her life, KHOU-TV, Houston, reported. "My neighbor across the street called me and said, 'Are you all right,' and I said, 'What's the matter,' and she said, 'Oh, Mrs. Wright you don't know that truck is in your yard and could have come in your house?' "I'm just so thankful to the good Lord it was there, to stop that truck, I tell ya," Wright said. Wright told KHOU she got the tree in the early 1960s when she in Cleveland, Texas. "Me and my niece went out there and dug them -- she got one and I got one -- they were little bitty saplings then," she said.