Dozens of pigs wandering on the highway and firefighters blocking with their trucks. The image is rather unusual. She was captured on Monday July 31, 2023 on the AP-7 motorway, north of Barcelona (Spain) towards Perpignan (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). In the afternoon, an accident occurred between a car and a truck transporting pigs, reports News Perpignan.
The collision was so violent that the cattle truck went over the central barrier and fell completely onto the road. His back door then opened and dozens of pigs fled and invaded the road. On the images relayed by Spanish television, we see fire vehicles blocking the road to animals.
More than 15 km of traffic jams
The emergency services then tried to park the pigs in a small area in order to recover them and above all to avoid causing an accident. It is not known if any of them perished in the accident. Then a crane was dispatched to the site to raise the wreckage of the truck, complete France 3 Occitania.
Traffic on the highway was completely cut off during the operation, which lasted several hours. At the end of the afternoon, more than fifteen kilometers of traffic jams were identified on this portion of the AP-7 motorway. Traffic resumed after cleaning the road.
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