Premium Content Subscriber only A COURT has heard an elderly Ipswich man was lucky to escape unharmed after a truck slammed into his vehicle as he attempted a U-turn on the Cunningham Highway. The 86-year-old driver had become confused after heading the wrong way down the highway near the Redbank Plains Rd on ramp on January 4. A 45-tonne truck bore down on the man's vehicle, colliding with the rear. While it destroyed the vehicle, the driver was not injured. Paul Gilbert Rollo Jones, a retiree from Flinders View, went before Ipswich Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a motor vehicle on the Cunningham Highway at Blackstone.