Animal Blood Spilled On Kansas Highway

A tanker truck carrying animal blood sprang a leak, splashing cars and leaving a 20-mile-long stain on a highway.

The tanker, en route Wednesday to a processing plant in Syracuse, about 15 miles from the Colorado line, apparently blew a seal.

“One lane was pretty much covered with blood,” Sheriff Dan Levens said. “It was splashing all over the cars.”

The blood poses no health hazard, said Verna Bagby, a spokeswoman for Clausen-Koch Corp., where the blood was to be dried, separated and sent to factories for use in animal feed.

Highway workers spread sand to soak up the spill.