Roughly every 16 minutes someone is fatally injured in a crash with an 18-wheeler or big rig.<\/p>\n
Those statistics are pretty dismal when you think about it. There is, however, a certain sense of realism in that number when you take a look at just how many of those huge monsters travel the highways on a daily basis. In fact, it’s almost a wonder more accidents don’t happen. Suffice it to say that a rough average of at least 5,000 deaths a year is even more shocking.<\/p>\n
The problem with large truck crashes is that quite often they are also involved in multiple vehicle pile-ups, which increases the death toll. By state the accident statistics tend to vary, but the three states with the highest death records due to 18-wheeler crashes are California, Texas and Florida. Not exactly a record that a state would want to brag about.<\/p>\n