Cattle loose after Rt. 29 crash

5:40 p.m.

By Carrie Sidener
Lynchburg News & Advance

Seven cattle remain roaming the land around the U.S. 29 bypass after a car crash Monday afternoon set them loose.

The cattle escaped the trailer of 63-year-old Roscoe Goode of Richmond when it overturned as the farmer headed south on the U.S. 29 bypass near Galts Mill Road in Madison Heights around 2:30 p.m. Monday.

There were eight cattle in the trailer but one was injured so badly that it had to be put down, said Trooper Mike Ledbetter of the Virginia State Police.

The crash happened as Goode was driving south on the highway in his Ford F250 towing the cattle trailer when a box truck, driven by Gary Smoot, 47 of Forest, hit the back end of the trailer, Ledbetter said. The impact caused Goode to lose control of the truck and trailer and the trailer overturned.

Traffic on U.S. 29 was backed up as crews took more than an hour to clean up the crash.

Emergency crews couldn’t capture the seven cattle that escaped in the crash. Neither driver was transported to the hospital

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4:13 p.m.

VDOT says all lanes of Route 29 are back open.

We hope to have pictures and more information about the crash later tonight.

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3:29 p.m.

VDOT says a crash is blocking all four lanes of Route 29 in Amherst County.

The crash is near teh ramp at Galts Mill Road and Izaak Walton Road.  (Click here for a map)

Our newsroom at the Lynchburg News & Advance reports that cattle are loose because of the crash.

More information as we get it.