Udder disaster: Cows escape after livestock truck crashes

ATLANTA (AP) — Officials in Georgia called in the cavalry Monday after dozens of cows escaped when a tractor-trailer transporting them overturned on a busy junction north of Atlanta.

The truck carrying 89 cows overturned around 3 a.m. on the cloverleaf of Interstate 75 and I-285. Many of the cows scattered, causing wrecks and clogging rush-hour traffic.

"We're wrangling some cows, that's what we're doing," Sandy Springs Police Sgt. Sam Worsham said.

The effort to round up the herd included real cowboys, the Georgia Department of Transportation said.

Cobb County Police Sgt. Wayne Delk said 87 of the 89 cows had been accounted for by Monday afternoon. Ten cows were killed, and two were still missing.