A 42-year-old Waterbury man who was left a quadriplegic following a truck rollover on Route 8 in Waterbury two years ago has settled with his former employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier for $5.49 million.

Schley Hunter was a passenger in a Rinaldi box truck owned by New Milford Laundry when the driver of the truck, police said, fell asleep at the wheel and lost control of the vehicle. The truck, which was heading northbound on Route 8, hit 50 yards of guardrail and flipped over on its right side after striking a large rock on the side of the road, according to Michael Burrell, Hunter’s attorney. Hunter was struck by a tractor-trailer traveling 50 miles per hour as he tried to pull driver Howard Dozier to safety.