By Staff
October 5, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Eastbound Harvester Road will be closed for an extended period of time today, October 5th, while police investigate an accident involving a truck roll over.
Truck carrying 150+ pigs flipped over while making a turn on its way to the slaughterhouse.
Just after 7:00 am Wednesday morning, a truck carrying a reported 160 pigs lost control and flipped over at Apply Line and Harvester Road.
No other vehicles were involved in the accident. The driver of the truck is being treated for minor injuries.
Firemen round up pigs that were in a truck that flipped over yards from the entrance to a slaughterhouse.
The pigs were being transported to Fearmans Pork Plant.
A number of pigs escaped from the truck; one radio report had a pig walking through a Tim Hortons drive through – take that report with a grain of salt.
There is no report of any of the animals being killed – what makes the event relevant is the trial taking place on how these pigs can be treated by those he feel they are being mistreated.
Burlington is in the third day of what look like a five day trial that has Anita Krajnc being charged with mischief for giving pigs in a truck water on a sweltering hot day.
oh yes, there was a huge traffic mess on appleby this morning, during rush hour.