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2,200 Baby Pigs Escape on Ohio Highway After Truck Crashes

Talk about hogging the road. A semi truck carrying 2,200 baby pigs tipped over Monday on an Ohio highway, officials said.
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By Hanna Guerrero and Hasani Gittens

Talk about hogging the road.

A semi-truck carrying 2,200 baby pigs tipped over Monday on an Ohio highway, officials said.

Crashed truck carrying pigs on Route 35 in Xenia, Ohio.
Crashed truck carrying pigs on Route 35 in Xenia, Ohio.Justin Kraus / WDTN

The accident happened on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia, which is just southeast of Dayton, officials said. After the crash was reported at about 7:00 p.m. ET, both west and east bound lanes of the bypass were closed, according to NBC affiliate WDTN.

Catching pigs on Route 35 in Xenia, OH.
Catching pigs on Route 35 in Xenia, OH.Justin Kraus / WDTN

Multiple fire agencies, paramedics, officers and regular citizens were attempting to wrangle the baby pigs, according to a Green County dispatch.

Pigs in a truck after crash on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia, Ohio.
Pigs in a truck after crash on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia, Ohio.WDTN

Authorities believe some 200 to 300 pigs were killed, and another 1,500 were captured, according to WDTN.

Hanna Guerrero
Hasani Gittens

Hasani Gittens is a Senior News Editor at NBCNews.com. Gittens, a WNBC veteran, joined NBCNews.com in January 2013. Before that he worked at The Daily — News Corp's short-lived "iPad newspaper" — where he spent two years also as a news editor.

Prior to that, he worked at WNBC as the managing editor of the station's website, and even longer ago he spent eight years as a reporter and eventually an editor for the New York Post. 

Gittens lives in Queens, New York.