A single cow held up traffic for about an hour near Atlanta, Ga., on Saturday after falling out of a livestock trailer.
According to the Dunwoody Police Department, the cow was first reported running on the I-285 highway around 9 a.m. on Saturday. Officers were able to capture the cow with the use of rope provided by a civilian and returned the cow to its owner.
WSB-TV reports that at one point, three lanes of the highway were closed due to the animal, though traffic returned to normal about an hour later.
There was a report of a crash in the area, the station reports, however it is unclear whether or not the cow was involved in the accident in any way.
“Traffic was moving a little. Cars were slowly getting by. Then all the sudden this cow comes running around the corner with a gentleman chasing him,” Michael Gerbick, a witness to the event who was heading to work, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I was surprised when I saw it, but I guess it is Atlanta.”
The newspaper notes that this is not the first time a cow has affected traffic in the Atlanta area. Beginning in 2018 there were three separate traffic incidents involving cows in a 5-month span, in which several dozen cows ended up dying.