Overturned pig lorry causes Cullybackey chaos

Police and local farmers were quickly on the scene at Main Street to rescue a number of the animals. It is understood that a number of the pigs had to be put down after the accident.

It is understood the trailer was carrying up to 100 pigs.

Main Street was closed in both directions for a time.

A local man said it was fortunate that children who would normally have been walking to school at the time of the accident, were on half-term holiday.

“The tractor with the trailer came up round the corner at the back of our shop on the Main Street,” he said.

“The trailer snapped off the tractor and tipped onto its side onto the footpath, then it hit the pole and took some of the wall out as well.

“The pigs then got trapped in it because it was on its side and could not go anywhere up against the wall.”