Collapse on the A7: Swine transporter tilts around - 700 animals in danger!

On Tuesday, an accident of a pig van occurred on Autobahn 7 at Owschlag. According to kn-online.de the reason for the accident was a burst tire. The saddle tractor overturned and is currently on the right lane. Around 700 pigs were loaded on the van.

The Autobahn 7 towards Hamburg is expected to be completely closed until 5 p.m. Traffic is diverted through the Jagel departure. The loading of the pigs and cleaning up should also continue until around 5 p.m.

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In another incident, such as Tagesspiegel.de reported, there was a serious accident on Tuesday by a pig van on Autobahn 3 in Bavaria. Around 700 piglets died. The van had a total of 900 animals on board, 150 of which had to be killed because of their injuries, and 550 died in the accident. Only 200 piglets survived; The fire brigade had to intervene to cool the animals because of the high temperatures.

The driver of the van presumably lost control of the vehicle due to a medical problem, which also led to injuries to the driver and the passenger. Jan Peifer from the German Animal Welfare Office pointed out that such accidents occur almost weekly and are often due to human failure. In addition, the animal welfare organization points four paws towards the high number of unreported cases of such accidents because there is no nationwide statistics.

The European Parliament also calls for an action plan for a transition from living animal transport to meat transports to counteract such incidents.