Before noon on the 27th, there was an accident on the Chugoku Expressway in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in which a large truck carrying a pig on its platform overturned.
Pigs jumped out onto the highway due to the momentum of the fallen truck, and the surrounding section is closed to traffic.
Around 11:30 am on the 27th, a large truck carrying pigs on the platform hit the median strip and overturned on the Chugoku Expressway in Iwakuni City.
According to police, the male driver was transported to the hospital, but he is conscious.
Five or six pigs jumped out onto the highway due to the momentum of the truck collapsing, and it was confirmed that multiple pigs were gathering in a place a little away from the truck in the image from the NHK helicopter. I made it.
It means that the police are considering how to collect the pigs that have gone outside.
The truck is overturned as if it is riding on the median strip, and the Chugoku Expressway is closed to traffic between the Muikaichi Interchange in Shimane Prefecture and the Togouchi Interchange in Hiroshima Prefecture.
The site is a downhill with two lanes on one side, and it is a gentle right curve.