Here's a sobering fact for all the highway drivers out there: In heavy rain, a semi truck traveling at 55 miles per hour can take the length of two football fields to come to a complete stop.
What do you think the chances are that a sliding tractor trailer hits another vehicle in the course of that 200-yard skid?
And that's just one of the uncomfortable facts about truck accidents found in the infographic below, created by the National Trial Lawyers Association. Check out the rest.
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