Chris Dorst
A Tractor-trailer hauling pigs wrecked on the West Virginia Turnpike near Paint Creek Thursday evening, killing several animals and freeing a few hundred others to roam just off the highway, a State Police dispatcher said.
The accident, reported at 5:44 p.m., happened in a curve next to the Morton Travel Plaza on Interstate 77 northbound. The driver, who rolled the tractor-trailer, was not injured and will not be cited, a dispatcher said.
Other drivers have wrecked along the same curve, a dispatcher said.
State Police troopers and members of the Pratt Fire Department -- as well as workers with Hutch's Wrecker Service in Handley -- responded to the accident, a dispatcher said.
Emergency workers and Hutch's workers carried off pigs that escaped the wrecked livestock trailer and tried to round them up Thursday night, placing several of them in the back of pickup trucks.
The right-hand, northbound lane of I-77 near the travel plaza was closed for several hours Thursday evening after the wreck.
Source: wvgazette
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