ok last night, here in Louisville KY, i was driving down 65 W with a friend at about 10:00pm. traffic was at a dead stop and the highway was closed 5 miles ahead. an hour later we get closer to the scene and find that they are directing all the traffic from the highway off an exit. before we got off the exit we asked a cop wht was going on: he said: "a cattle trialer flipped over with over 100 cattle in it". as we got off the exit, in the distance, i see 3 cows just walking around the middle of the highway. never in my life have i seen a cow walking around the highway, i thought that this was so weird/ kinda funny if u think about it/ yet a shame there was an accident, that i would share it with my fellow volvo drivers. anyways i think i'm starting to ramble now.

cya

Cows standing in the road is a common sighting in the West. I've seen them in Wyoming also, crossing from the Tetons to the Black hills or tripping across the US seveal times. It happens all the time here in Texas on back country roads. It's kind of cool to take the car down to a stop and begin to see life as the cattle do, taking their time to wander across the road. They really don't care if your not on time or that your joyride was interrupted. Makes you consider things in a different way.
As far as the accident, that isn't my way of getting a steak dinner, would rather find it on the supermarket shelves. Too bad for the rancher.
Now as for bad accidents, one of the worst I've seen was three tomatoe trucks headed to market on a late friday afternoon near Sacremento. As they screamed by me doing 80 mph with the tomatoes rocking back and forth in the tall trailer beds, I though about how it could be quite a mess if they had an accident. A few minutes later the traffic stopped. I-80 was shut down for 6 hrs to clean up the mess. It made a smashing story in the San Francisco news that day.

Some places like Wyoming they still drive the heards down sections of the old US highways in the spring and fall...nothing like a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere.

I remember out in LA a bunch of years back a bull rack flipped over on the freeway in the city and the cops were out there shooting the cows...I guess they figured the wild animals were dangerous :-)
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If you think hitting a 200lb. deer is damaging to your car, think about hitting a 1200lb. cow.

yeah that would suck!!

You Americans are so spoiled ... with your Automatic transmissions and cup holders. So they closed the highway for cows eh?

Driving on single track roads in the hills of Scotland or the lanes of England one learns which way to go when coming round a bend and suddenly encountering a herd of sheep in the road, by the look in their eyes.

Kidding aside; I'm sure it was quite a sight.