DALLAS (NBC News) – Police near Dallas spent Thursday morning clearing a fiery interstate crash which included wrangling loose pigs in the highway.
A semi-truck carrying a load of pigs tipped over and burst into flames on Interstate 45 in Wilmer around 6:45 Thursday morning.
Police say the driver of the truck was not injured and there are no other injuries.
Meanwhile, police had a job on their hands trying to round up the animals. At one point officers managed to get some of the livestock into a trailer but they managed escaped.
Unfortunately, some of the animals didn’t survive the crash and some may have run off.
A stretch of the interstate is closed in both directions.
There’s no word on what caused the crash.