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LINCOLN — One little piggie caused a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 80 on Friday; another little piggie apparently escaped.

Steve Beal, the manager of Animal Control in Lincoln, said his officers were called twice on Friday afternoon to a segment of I-80 just west of the 27th Street interchange.

The first call, he said, was at 4:45 p.m. after a baby feeder pig strayed into the eastbound lanes and caused a chain reaction accident. Three vehicles sustained an estimated $3,500 in damage, according a Lincoln police report.

While none of the motorists was injured, the pig had scraping and bruising consistent with falling out of a livestock trailer, Beal said. A Lincoln veterinary clinic diagnosed the 25-pound piglet with a broken pelvis. Because of its injuries, the piglet was euthanized, he said.

About an hour later, Beal said his office got a second call about a piglet on the loose. Animal Control was unable to locate that one.

He said that it’s rare to get a call about livestock falling out of a trailer, but that it does happen.