Vehicle Overturns After Driver Tries To Avoid A Pig

July 6, 2009

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There were no serious injuries in a single vehicle accident about 5:00 this morning in Bratt caused when a driver tried to miss a pig in the roadway.

pigwreck13.jpgThe accident happened on North Highway 99 just north of Highway 168 when the driver of a Ford Explorer swerved in an attempt to miss a small pig in the highway. The driver lost control, and the vehicle overturned into a ditch.

Three people in the in vehicle were not seriously injured and refused transport to the hospital. The pig was killed in the accident.

The Walnut Hill Station of Escambia Fire Rescue, Atmore Ambulance and the Florida Highway Patrol responded to the accident.

Pictured above and below: There were no serious injuries in this rollover accident Monday morning in Bratt. The SUV driver said she tried to miss a pig in the roadway. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.

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Comments

15 Responses to “Vehicle Overturns After Driver Tries To Avoid A Pig”

  1. Bogia Heights on July 9th, 2009 1:10 pm

    How sad! Wrecked vehicle and dead pig… :-(

  2. Reed on July 9th, 2009 9:31 am

    If you were a stranger to the South and reading this, you would think we are a bunch of hicks. Its so funny and the picture of the pig is the clincher. :) Love the story! Hate it for the folks in the turned over vehicle. I would have just slammed into that little pig to save my car. Years of driving rural highways makes the heart hard when it comes to vehicular animal slaughter.

  3. judy on July 8th, 2009 3:05 pm

    i was reading up on wild pigs/hogs, since my husband hunts them…if youre going to prepare them (to eat) you should wear rubber gloves and avoid touching their blood or sexual organs, as they carry a good number of unhealthy paracites ….smoked pigs are quite tastey though!

  4. meforone on July 8th, 2009 5:53 am

    Pig that size I would have made bacon.

  5. who on July 7th, 2009 11:53 pm

    I have used this road for about 30 years living at Canoe then Bratt .I have never seen a pig. I have been hit by a deer in Robinsville.This could cause more accidents. I wonder if signs could be warning of this, They are warning of other animals.

  6. EMD on July 6th, 2009 9:10 pm

    I drove that road to work, from 1991 to 1996, and I never saw a pig of any kind. But, once I saw the biggest pig I have ever seen in my whole life on the side lane of Hwy. 29 north, on the way to take my grandson fishing. I did not know any kind of pig got as big as the one we saw. It must have mutated.

  7. Beegee on July 6th, 2009 1:36 pm

    Well,I do leave my house on a regular basis……..:} but I had the wrong end of 99!!!!! Although,we do go out that way quite often…..we’ve still not seen any….but now that it has come to our attention….we’ll probably see more than our share!!!!
    JJ,thanks for thec smilie!!!!

  8. J.S. on July 6th, 2009 11:59 am

    Poor little piggy!!!

  9. bmb on July 6th, 2009 11:41 am

    Our son hit a huge hog one morning coming in from work. The wild life people should do something about the over population, this particular area is over run with hogs.

  10. Cyndi Vaughn on July 6th, 2009 11:21 am

    My husband leaves our house (near the Bratt crossroads) at 6 a.m. & has called me many times warning me of the large number of wild pigs crossing Hwy 99 north of Bachelor Road (the road that goes to Lee Vet Clinic). Several times when I’ve been taking my children to school, I’ve seen dead pigs on the side of the road in that area.

  11. JJ on July 6th, 2009 11:08 am

    Beegee, do you leave the house? ;-) (jk)

    Seriously, I live in Canoe, but work in Walnut Hill, so I drive through there several times a day… most of the time the dead hogs are in that stretch of road that goes through the big fields where 99/CR-8 intersects 31. Occasionally there is also one down by the bridge, if you turn right on 31 from 99/CR-8…

    Like Mark said, there have been at least 4 or 5 killed in the last few months right in that area…

  12. Beegee on July 6th, 2009 10:46 am

    That’s strange……because we have lived on 99 in that very area for 7 years and have never seen a pig,wild or tame!!!! Deer,yes……

  13. JJ on July 6th, 2009 9:00 am

    Yup, exactly what NF said. Lots of times there are dead pigs in that area with the death-dealing vehicle’s front air dam and other various body parts strewn around… in fact, we just came through there last night about midnight and I told my wife… “if you see the bushes moving on the side of the road, prepare for me to slam on the brakes…”

  14. Mark on July 6th, 2009 8:24 am

    I have seen four pigs dead in that area in the past 8 or 10 months. I also had about 8 run out in front of me early one morning when I was going to work. Watch out and be safe everyone on that road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. NF on July 6th, 2009 7:28 am

    Sorry for the people in the Explorer, but not unsual to see pigs around there. From that point north to 31 is horrible for vehicles and wild pigs. Often there are dead pigs and car pieces on the roadway.

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