Imagine the sound of 170 hogs squealing at once.
Hogs stand near a tractor trailer after they are freed from the wreck.
The truck, driven by Titus Johnson, landed on its side with 170 hogs inside. Johnson was headed to Carolina Food Processors in Tar Heel. Staff photo by Elizabeth Darwin Gatlin Rescue workers saw and heard it for more than three hours Thursday after a Carroll's Foods truck flipped over on N.C. 87 on its way down the ramp from Interstate 95. By the time Carroll's employees freed the animals, at least 30 hogs were dead or dying. The rest continued on to Carolina Foods in Tar Heel.