A driver was involved in a high-speed car accident. A truck owned by a trucking company ran the driver's compact car off the road into a ditch. The driver was not hurt, but the side and front of his car were crushed. In a suit against the trucking company, the driver offers the testimony of a witness that after the truck driver ran into the driver's car, the truck driver said, ""I should have been watching the road. The trucking company is the only defendant, and the truck driver is available to testify. How should the trial judge rule on the testimony?