Old Am. County Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Sanchez, 81 S.W.3d 452, 462 (Tex.App.Austin 2002) (observing, but not holding, that Latham’s rule “survives in the fact situation ... where car A hits car B which then hits car C” in a case where an uninsured motorist hit an insured’s vehicle, causing the vehicle to collapse on the insured), rev’d on other grounds, 149 S.W.3d 111 (Tex.2004). Only two motor vehicles were involved in Elchehimi’s collision: the unidentified truck and Elchehimi’s station wagon. Because the axle-wheel assembly is not a motor vehicle, it cannot fill the role of an intermediary vehicle to provide indirect contact between the unidentified truck and Elchehimi’s vehicle. Latham is further distinguishable because the court in Latham was interpreting 78 (Tex.App.-El Paso 1993) (<HOLDING>), rev’d on other grounds, 903 S.W.2d 338
holding that collision between the claimants vehicle and a steel pipe dropped from an exiting truck was not actual physical contact with a motor vehicle holding that water pump falling from truck and striking insured was not actual physical contact with a motor vehicle holding detention lawful when police referred driver to secondary to check ownership of the vehicle after the driver admitted that the car did not belong to him and the registration revealed that the car was owned by another holding that a collision with the loading ramp of a trailer was not actual physical contact with a motor vehicle holding that insured rearending another car that was trying to avoid furniture dropped on the highway by an unknown driver was not actual physical contact with an unknown vehicle