{"id":81354,"date":"2011-03-26T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=81354"},"modified":"2011-03-28T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:59:54","slug":"deputy-still-critical-with-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=81354","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Remains Critical After Cow Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Robert Britton is still fighting for his life tonight after he was hit by a cow while directing traffic. Law enforcement across the county are waiting and praying for his recovery, including Bullard Police chief Gary Lewis. Lewis calls it a \u201cfreak accident.\u201d \u201cHe was doing what he was doing to protect others. It could happen a hundred times again and not have hurt anybody,\u201d he says. Lewis was driving on Farm Road 344 near Bullard at 1:30 Thursday morning when he saw what looked like the scene of an accident. He turned around to see if a car was in the ditch, and saw a cow in the middle of the road. He says the cow appeared to have been hit by a car, and there were skid marks.<\/p>\n

Since the cow was lying in the road in a valley, Lewis says it would have been hard for drivers to see it and stop in time. That\u2019s when he called Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies to help direct traffic. Deputy Robert Britton was one of them. Lewis says as they were directing traffic, the cow, which hadn\u2019t been moving, got up without warning and started heading toward him and Britton. He says the cow hit Britton in the chest and knocked him over. \u201cHis feet went up and hit the back of his head. I was standing within a few feet of him and kind of picked his head up. I put my hand under his head and was trying to talk to him, but he was uconscience, his body stiffened up,\u201d says Lewis.<\/p>\n

Deputy Britton suffered head and neck injuries. The Department of Public Safety tells us the cow\u2019s owner could be at fault for having a cow outside of a fence. Officials say the driver could face charges for leaving the accident, since the cow is considered property. So far, the cow\u2019s owner and driver are both unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Robert Britton is still fighting for his life tonight after he was hit by a cow while directing traffic. Law enforcement across the county are waiting and praying for his recovery, including Bullard Police chief Gary Lewis. Lewis calls it a \u201cfreak accident.\u201d \u201cHe was doing what he … Continue reading Deputy Remains Critical After Cow Attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:11:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81354"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81620,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81354\/revisions\/81620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}