Overturned semi releases cows on highway in downtown Tulsa

TULSA, Okla., Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a stretch of highway in downtown Tulsa was temporarily closed when an overturned semi trailer released cows onto the road.

The OHP said a semi pulling a cattle trailer overturned at the northwest corner of the Inner Dispersal Loop on Interstate 244 shortly before 1 p.m. Monday.

The driver was not injured, but several cows were killed in the crash, police said.

Several other cows got loose from the trailer when it overturned and police said they believed about nine of the animals were wandering the area after the crash.

"Well we've got this little area back here behind us kind of pinned up and we've got six or seven cows in there and then we've got two that are further into the west by the neighborhoods and we kind of got them contained in some areas out there, so it looks like at this point two cows outside of this immediate area," OHP Sgt. Bryan Bryden told KJRH-TV.

The OHP had to call an emergency service to help remove the cows from the road.

All of the bovines were reported to have been rounded up by 5:45 p.m. and the road was reopened.