If there is one thing that causes complete havoc and often death on the highways these days, it’s big rigs involved in crashes.<\/p>\n
There usually isn’t any contest winner when it comes to a large rig colliding with a passenger vehicle. Most accidents of this nature result in extremely serious injuries, if not fatalities. What is food for thought are the numbers of large trucks cruising on our highways, and that number is well over 14,000,000 according to the Bureau of Transportation statistics.<\/p>\n
The most recent statistics available for truck crashes from 2007 indicate total injuries reported were in the range of 81,000, with over 4,500 being fatal crashes. The numbers don’t get any better when tracking non-fatal accidents either, with over 55,000 injury crashes logged.<\/p>\n
What’s going on here? Why are there are so many large rig crashes? Many of the reasons don’t take too much thought, and the first things that generally (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If there is one thing that causes complete havoc and often death on the highways these days, it’s big rigs involved in crashes. There usually isn’t any contest winner when it comes to a large rig colliding with a passenger…<\/span><\/p>\n