BROOKINGS, S.D.–Six vehicles were damaged after colliding with cows that wandered onto Interstate 29 in Brookings County.
The sheriff’s department says the initial call came in a little before 1:30 Saturday morning of a vehicle that struck a cow a few miles north of the Bruce-White exit.
When first responders got there, they discovered approximately 90 cows had wandered onto the interstate and into the ditch through an open gate.
As a Brookings County deputy was taking a report of the first accident, five more vehicles, including a city of Brookings fire truck struck additional cows.
The combined damage to the vehicles is estimated at more than $26,000.
The total loss of the cattle is estimated at $11,500.
