Walter Kenneth Griner appeals from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment to the defendants in Griner’s action for personal injury. Griner, a tow truck driver, was injured after being called to the scene of a collision between two trucks. He brought suit against the drivers of both trucks and their employers. Griner raises several arguments to support his contention that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendants. Because we find no merit in any of Griner’s arguments, we affirm the judgment. The record shows that the collision occurred when Edward Kier, a truck driver under lease to Carl F. Douglas d/b/a Faacawie Transport, was attempting to back his flatbed trailer truck into the driveway of his home after picking up a load of lumber for delivery the next day. As the trailer began to enter the driveway, it was struck at full speed by a pickup truck driven by Carnett Sam Dees, Jr., who was working for Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company at the time. The force of the collision wedged the front of Dees’s pickup truck under the trailer, trapping Dees in the cab.
Griner was called to the scene by the Georgia State Patrol. He arrived at the collision shortly thereafter in his flatbed tow truck. A number of cars and trucks were at the scene, including State Patrol, county and city police department vehicles, county and city fire department vehicles, and ambulances. Upon arrival, Griner observed the trailer truck across the road, and the back of Dees’s pickup truck “sticking out from the back of that semi.” Although Griner was dubious that his truck could pull the pickup out, either a State Patrol officer or a firefighter concerned with Dees’s condition instructed Griner to “hook up” his chain to the pickup truck, and he did so. When that did not work, they tried the winch and cable apparatus on Griner’s truck, even though Griner was almost certain that would not work, either.
