{"id":143834,"date":"2026-02-24T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:39:07","slug":"watch-escaped-cows-block-traffic-on-new-york-state-thruway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143834\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Escaped cows block traffic on New York State Thruway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212; It was udder chaos on the New York State Thruway when three cows escaped from a livestock trailer and wandered into Interstate 90 traffic.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/2026\/02\/thruway-traffic-near-buffalo-stopped-after-cows-escaped-trailer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the trailer was parked<\/a> on the shoulder of the highway at Exit 56 in Blasdell, near Buffalo, due to a mechanical issue when three cows escaped and wandered into the highway on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The cows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/traffic\/cows-on-the-loose-disrupt-nys-thruway-traffic\/71-1b26cb7f-eb93-44b8-8dfa-a769edbeb10b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moved back and forth<\/a> from the roadway to the median while attempting to elude police, their owners and bystanders who stopped to help. Traffic was slowed to a crawl in both directions during the chase.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said two of the cows were rounded up quickly, but the third managed to evade capture for a while longer before being secured by its owners.<\/p>\n<p>The cows were safely removed from the scene, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYSThruway\/posts\/pfbid029rTqzahUsFDySPqi9y1XhEKJEPKH7KHt2cX56cU7Svu1PCiBdoXXU8RBS76xofKDl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the New York State Thruway Authority cautioned<\/a> that traffic delays persisted as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212; It was udder chaos on the New York State Thruway when three cows escaped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1457,35541,9,11,10,49,51,50,35540,1295],"class_list":["post-143834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-odd","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}