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A tractor-trailer carrying 2,200 pigs tipped and crashed on U.S. 35 West near Xenia, Ohio, just after 7 p.m. Monday, WHIO-TV reports.
About 300 to 400 piglets died in the accident, Xenia Township Fire Chief Dean Fox said.
"There's quite a few dead pigs," he told WHIO at the scene.
Police said the driver of the 18-wheeler, who was en route from South Carolina to Shirley, Indiana, will be cited for failure to control a motor vehicle. The driver said his passenger, who was injured in the crash, is his fiancee.
When firefighters arrived on the scene Monday evening, the driver said there were about 2,200 piglets in the trailer and 300 to 400 were still inside. Fox credited area farmers who brought livestock trailers to the scene because that allowed many of the animals to be rounded up safely. He noted that pigs that ran off and made it into the woods might not be found.
“Probably we’ll never get a hold of them. … We’ll try as hard as we can, but we probably won’t retrieve them all. I can’t say what will happen to the pigs," Fox said.
“If somebody finds a pig and wants to turn it in, call the local law enforcement and we’ll try to take care of it."