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By FOSS FARRAR
Traveler Staff Writer
reporter@arkcity.net

A tractor-trailer hauling live cattle to the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef plant was blown off the road late this morning during a snow storm. The rig overturned in a ditch on the south side of U.S. 160 east of Oxford.

"A gust of wind blew it off the road," said Cowley County Sheriff Bob Odell.

The driver was pinned in the truck cab and was extricated by emergency workers, Odell said. He was transported to William Newton Hospital with "mainly bruises."

Odell said he didn't know the identity of the driver. Sheriff's officers were still working the accident.

Several head of cattle perished in the accident, but most of the 33 on board were saved, Odell said.

The tractor-trailer was eastbound from Garden City headed for Creekstone Farms in Arkansas City, he said.

The accident occurred about a mile west of the Udall turnoff between Winfield and Oxford.

Below: Emergency workers check the scene of a cattle truck accident this morning after a strong gust of wind blew the tractor-trailer off U.S. 160 east of Oxford. The driver was pinned in the cab, but received mainly bruises, the Cowley County sheriff said.