8:19PM BST 24 Apr 2009They were able to break free when the vehicle was in an accident near the Malton Bacon Factory in York, which made the back doors swing open.
The escaped herd seized their opportunity and ran off down the road away from the lorry on Friday.
Firefighters used cutting equipment to free another 40 of the animals still trapped in the lorry, while other crew members used jets of water to cool them off.
North Yorkshire Police said all the pigs were eventually rounded up, but 40 had to be put down by vets. The lorry driver was unhurt in the accident.
The incident comes 11 years after the story of the infamous "Tamworth Two", a pair of pigs that escaped while being unloaded from a lorry at an abattoir in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
The pigs – later named Butch and Sundance after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – were on the run for over a week, and the search for them caused huge public interest both in Britain and abroad.
The two pigs now live at the Rare Breeds Centre, an animal sanctuary near Ashford in Kent.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5216099/Pigs-escape-when-lorry-crashes-yards-from-slaughterhouse.html
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