A truck, 200 pigs, and a fiery crash

This was not your typical I-15 accident.

A large semi-tractor-trailer truck carrying more than 200 pigs bound for a slaughterhouse caught fire and crashed after exiting Interstate Highway 15 at Bernice on Saturday evening, killing some pigs and sending others scrambling onto the road and nearby fields.

The incident occurred around 7 p.m., according to several witnesses. One of them, Colter Mitchell, first spotted the truck as it passed him heading south on I-15. Seeing that the back wheels of its trailer were on fire, he followed for several miles, trying to get the driver’s attention. (Warning: Mitchell’s video, below, contains some graphic language.)