Escaped animal forces A158 to close between Skegness and Burgh
An escaped animal forced the A158 Burgh Road, just outside of Skegness to close in both directions.
A horned cow weighing over a tonne escaped, straying onto the carriageway at around 12pm.
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The road was closed between the Burgh Old Road junction in Skegness and the Market Place junction in Burgh le Marsh.
Eventually the cow was persuaded off the road but could not be returned to a secure location.
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After several hours trying to find an alternative solution, Lincolnshire Police said they were forced to 'humanely destroy' the animal.
Comments
by M_C_Donald
Friday, January 04 2013, 9:35PM
“Phil,
You are dead right. Lack of imagination by the Police; I am sure a local dairy/beef farmer would of lent a trailer to load the cow into.”
by Phil1W
Friday, January 04 2013, 7:24PM
“These stories make me laugh. Had to close the road! Had to report it in the Lincolnshire Echo! Couldn't find anywhere "secure" to put the cow, not even fix the fence where it had got out, hard to believe it was on its own in a field or whatever on its own being a herd animal. So it was just "humanely destroyed"!
I'll tell you a story about escaped cows. There used to be a herd of young cows (heifers) in a field just down the lane from my grandmas when I was a boy. One day when I was about 13 or 14 I was out playing with a couple of mates on the track at the side of the field when we realised the herd was escaping through a hole in the fence out onto Sturton Road. Traffic stopped and one or two people got out of their cars. We went over and organised ourselves and simply drove the herd back into their field. The traffic moved on and one of my friends got on his bike and went down to the farm that owned the herd and let them know that there was a hole in the fence and there had been an escape. A farm worker came along, fixed the fence and gave us a couple quid each for our trouble. It was only then that we realized that there was an adult Hereford bull in with the herd but that would have made no difference.
A big difference was that in those days there no "health and safety" to worry about. We were used to being around cattle and knew what to do and got on with it. I could tell you where there is a herd of cows regularly sent down a lane every day now when going for milking. One man and his dog go and let them out. The cows walk down the road and know where to turn into the farm gate. Nobody stops traffic, you just stop and the girls walk around your car and never do any damage to it. So as I say I laugh when I see these stories. Also, in some ways they also pee me off as well!”
by lynnlincoln
Friday, January 04 2013, 4:50PM
“I've got a big freezer!”