ALOR GAJAH: Motorists along the North-South Expressway (NSE) were shocked to see pigs running along the highway on Monday morning following an accident involving a lorry transporting the livestock.
The incident happened at about 7.30am when the lorry transporting 14 pigs was headed from Kahang, Johor to Senawang, Ngeri Sembilan, when it was rear-ended by a Proton Gen 2 at Km197.7 on the highway before reaching Senawang.
As the pigs ran free, surprised motorists found themselves slowing down to avoid hitting the animals.
Engineer Rajendran Muthu, 56, said he was driving to Nilai from Johor when he spotted a pig in the middle of the highway.
“I thought it was a wild boar but then I realised it was a pig which had escaped from a lorry nearby which was involved in an accident.
“It was then that I spotted a highway personnel chasing the pigs to the side of the road,” he said.
Lorry driver Tee Yu Peng, 58, who was with his wife Tan Bee Chin, 55, said he was driving in the slow lane of the highway when he felt his lorry being hit by something from the back.
“It caused me to swerve and hit the rail guard on the left side of the road before I landed in a ditch.
“I tried to swerve back onto the road but I was blocked off by a Proton Gen 2 which sped past me,” he said.
Tee and his wife, escaped unhurt and he had said the pigs did not cause any accident and were all recaptured by 10.30am.
Meanwhile, Alor Gajah district police chief Superintendent Asmadi Abdul Aziz said that the driver of the Proton Gen 2 involved in the accident with the lorry, was travelling with two others.
He said the driver, Muhammad Dhiaulhaq Xulkifli, 18, a vocational college student from Johor, suffered head injuries and was rushed to the Alor Gajah hospital for treatment.
He said the two other passengers escaped injuries.
He said the case is being investigated under Section 43 of the Road Transport Act 1987 for careless and inconsiderate driving.