Kansas City Crash Kills Dozens of Cattle

A semitrailer carrying about 120 to 130 cattle overturned shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday on a downtown Kansas City, Missouri, highway ramp near an I-70 overpass and plunged onto a car below. Authorities said 45 to 60 cattle died. The truck driver and the car driver were hospitalized, with later reports describing their injuries as minor or their conditions as stable. Escaped cattle wandered several miles, prompting road closures and a search that used drones and horseback wranglers. By early afternoon, police said all surviving cattle had been accounted for. Crews continued working on the wreckage and a diesel spill. Load size and deaths are reported as ranges, not fixed counts. Injury descriptions shifted from hospitalization to minor or stable in later reports. The record names no people and includes no verbatim quotes.