Pickup truck trailer crashes on bridge causing livestock deaths, Logan County CO
TrafficA pickup truck towing a trailer of calves lost its rear axle on a bridge near Highway 138 and Route 36 in Logan County, Colorado. The trailer overturned into a creek bed, causing the deaths of some calves. Emergency responders and a brand inspector are managing the situation.
Audio|Source: Logan County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS, Sheriff, Sterling Police, State Patrol
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Transcript:
00:00
Stretches just got here, they don't think they can take this truck and trailer.
00:04
I think I'll need the next heavy.
00:06
If I go ahead and call the next heavy, then I let them go.
00:11
What do you have going out there? Is it like a pickup truck pulling a trailer or what is it?
00:18
Yeah, so it's a RAM 3,500 pickup that ripped its rear axle off on a bridge and then had a trailer full of calves that rolled down into the little creek bed.
00:31
The cows are just out of the trailer already, or?
00:37
I think there's like five still in the trailer and then there's another like six that have already died.
00:45
Okay, yeah, just call the next, uh, the next heavy wrecker then I think if they can't handle it.
00:54
I copy. And the, does the brand inspector normally take care of the cows when he gets here?
01:03
Is the owner still on scene or is that the one that was transported?
01:08
So the guy driving the truck, the truck comes out of Kersey.
01:13
They're taking it to a dairy out here so we don't know who the owner is or if this guy was or not, but the driver got transported already.
01:22
Okay, so there's no one else on scene from in that truck.
01:25
There was no pass.
01:26
There's nothing. No one else on scene.
01:29
Yeah,
01:32
yeah, typically the brand inspector will come out and they'll take care of the CalPERS.
01:35
That's typically with my experience in the past.
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