{"id":66043,"date":"2020-03-03T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T23:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cattle-truck-overturns-setting-off-chase-for-escaped-cows\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:34:20","slug":"cattle-truck-overturns-setting-off-chase-for-escaped-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cattle-truck-overturns-setting-off-chase-for-escaped-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle truck overturns, setting off chase for escaped cows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:50bab9a8-c24d-41bf-bc8d-232d5440c2e1 --><\/p>\n<p>FARMINGTON \u2013 Escaped cows led a multi-agency team on a chase Monday after a crash involving a stock trailer on U.S. Highway 64 near Hogback, west of Farmington.<\/p>\n<p>According to the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, two community bystanders helped people involved in the crash and then directed traffic until first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=432434b9-62e3-4886-a336-4a52a5007846&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Cows were on the loose Monday after a cattle truck crash west of Farmington.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cows were on the loose Monday after a cattle truck crash west of Farmington.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan County Fire Department<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After those involved in the crash were taken to the hospital for their injuries, the chase for the missing cows was underway. The roundup was a multi-agency effort involving community members, San Juan County Fire Department, San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, New Mexico State Police, New Mexico Department of Transportation, Navajo Police Department, Navajo Nation Fire Department and San Juan Regional Medical Center EMS.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f6b94957-b50f-4b39-bda0-d522ae416e55&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"The multi-agency team and community volunteers who helped roundup escaped cows Monday on U.S. Highway 64 west of Farmington.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The multi-agency team and community volunteers who helped roundup escaped cows Monday on U.S. Highway 64 west of Farmington.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan County Fire Department<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The New Mexico State Police took over the crash investigation, according to the San Juan County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan County Fire Department had fun on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sjcfdnm\/posts\/1089362384777486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a> describing the roundup with a series of puns: \u201cWe didn\u2019t MILK the cow puns too much. It be-HOOVES us to CORRAL our enthusiasm. The STEAKS are pretty high here, so we won\u2019t HORN in on your afternoon anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:lweber@durangoherald.com\">lweber@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>department \u2018milks\u2019 puns in social media post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,799,28,2579,254,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-newspapers","tag-road-crash","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90275,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043\/revisions\/90275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66043"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}