DALLAS – Police near Dallas were busy Thursday rounding up pigs that had escaped an overturned tractor-trailer on a freeway.

The crash was reported about 6:45 a.m. on Interstate 45 in Wilmer.

At least a dozen pigs could be seen roaming the freeway while traffic snaked by the scene. KXAS-TV reported that several swine wandered about a half mile away from the scene of the crash.

Authorities seemed to have most of the animals rounded up by 9 a.m.

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