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The accident occurred shortly before 3 a.m. and the roundup of
surviving cattle continued into the early afternoon, authorities
said.
The driver of the truck and the driver of a vehicle the truck
landed on sustained minor injuries and were treated at local
hospitals, they said.
Kansas City Police Sgt. Phil DiMartino said that between 45 and
60 of the 120 to 130 cattle carried by the truck were killed
when the tractor trailer overturned and fell from the westbound
I-70 curve over SB I-35.
Dozens of other cows fled the crash scene, resulting in other
crashes and more calls to the police from the public, he said.
“It is believed all cows have now been accounted for,” DiMartino
said in an updated press release Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred on a day when the Kansas City Chiefs were
hosting the Los Angeles Chargers in a National Football League
game. Major disruptions in game traffic were not anticipated by
authorities because of the wide publicity that the accident had
received.
Some of the cattle had walked several miles before they were
captured, said Kansas City Fire Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins.
“It was a pretty nasty accident,” Hopkins said.
Immediately after the accident, city authorities launched drones
to track the cattle before a private company working together
with the trucking company arrived with workers on horseback to
round up the cattle, he said.
“More difficult has been getting the animals who did not
survive,” he added.
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