Car hits 600-pound bull that wandered onto Interstate 81

[matcom]

<snip>

A 600-pound bull wandered onto Interstate 81 in Parish early Monday and was struck by a car, state police said.

The yearling escaped from a pen on state Route 69 shortly after midnight and walked almost two miles to the highway, state police said.

The bull entered the northbound lane of the highway from an offramp and was struck about 12:40 a.m. by a 1998 Plymouth Acclaim near the Route 69 overpass, said troopers and the bull's owner, David Reader.

The driver of the car, whom state police did not identify, was not injured.

Two troopers and several members of the Parish Town Highway Department stopped traffic as authorities decided what to do about the bull.

The bull, which suffered internal injuries including a punctured lung, was dazed and tried to walk into traffic again, said Reader and Hastings-based Trooper Brett Yorgey.

State police Sgt. Ed Foster, of the Hastings barracks, got a 50-foot piece of rope from his patrol car, tied a loop in it and swung it around the bull's horns.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1091522330142320.xml

[papau]

1. 1000 lb Moose in Vt usual kill the driver -600 lb bull and "not injured"?

Of course the New England Moose is so tall that he usually slides over the front hood and takes the drivers head off.

But that is another story!

:-)

[northzax]

2. yeah, probably what happened

is that it was only a glancing blow, or a low speed collision. If this plymouth Acclaim was doing 60 and hit it head on, the bull would have more problems than a punctured lung and some internal injuries.

edited for spelling.