Certainly rain makes truck accidents worse, but the numbers are shocking

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.