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Thousands of piglets stage escape attempt after Ohio lorry crash.
Authorities were filmed working to round up the animals after the crash on US Route 35 in Xenia Township, near Dayton.
The driver of the truck apparently lost control of the vehicle before colliding with the guardrail. A passenger inside the truck was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Some 2,200 piglets were inside the vehicle at the time of the crash. Up to 500 are thought to have been killed, while approximately 1,500 were recaptured.
Xenia Township Fire Chief Dean Fox told WLWT: “There’s quite a few pigs that got out and ran from the accident. They’re in the woods.
“I don’t think we’ll ever get all of them, I really, really don’t. We’ll try as hard as we can… but we probably won’t retrieve all of them.”
The surviving piglets are being cared for at the Greene County Fairgrounds.
They were being transported to Indiana from South Carolina when the accident took place.
Agencies/Canadajournal
