Lang
5/3/22
Three cows were killed and one person was injured in a car vs. cattle accident near Hills.
According to the Hills Fire Department, just after 9:45 Monday night firefighters joined Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies, the Iowa State Patrol and the Johnson County Ambulance Service in responding to a single-vehicle accident on southbound Highway 218 about a mile north of the Hills exit.
The driver was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries after striking a cow or multiple cows that were on the roadway.
Highway 218 was closed down to a single lane of travel for a short duration due to the incident.
Along with the motor vehicle cleanup, Hills fire and law enforcement personnel assisted with cattle wrangling operations to return several escaped cows back to the farm and field from which they came.
Three cows died as a result of the incident.