On Sunday, March 13, a cattle car leaving Canby tipped on I-5 while about to cross the I-5 bridge into Wilsonville.

About 30 bovines were set free amidst the buzzing I-5 freeway, many getting hit by cars or falling off the Wilsonville-Canby I-5 bridge into the Willamette river. These cows were on their way to be slaughtered, so many have discounted the tragedy as the cows were going to die soon anyways. no matter if the cows were going to die anyways, it was still a horrific event and many passerby were traumatized by the event.

“The event happened about 500 feet from my house, and and the experience was very hectic to say the least,” Said Keenan Sanford, a senior at Wilsonville High School, when questioned about the event. Keenan continued, “The entire freeway didn’t move for five solid hours. It was a disaster.”

Sophomore Jay West was trapped in the mess, and when asked how it affected him, he responded, “I was stuck in traffic for 5 hours while watching cows plunge off a bridge.”

It is not known how many cows died in the incident, but the Oregon State Police were seen “finishing off” some of the cows to “put them out of their misery.”

Lets hope an event like this never happens again in the future, as the shut down of I-5 affected the entirety of the west coast.