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BEAVER COUNTY -- A semi truck hauling pigs crashed in Beaver County early Wednesday morning.

Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Cameron Roden says a semi truck pulling a load of pigs rear-ended a pickup truck pulling a trailer on southbound I-15 about two miles south of the I-70 interchange.

The accident caused the semi to overturn and up on its top.

The truck driver was trapped inside the cab for nearly three hours and was flown to a hospital with serious injuries.

The truck was carrying about 100 hogs and about 40 of them had to be put down.

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