A dog escaped his yard, ran down one of the country's busiest interstate highways, was hit by a truck, kept running, and led police on a mile-long foot chase

• A dog escaped his yard and ran down I-95 in Philadelphia, bringing traffic to a stop.
• Enzo led police on a mile-long foot chase during rush-hour traffic on Friday, local news reports said.

It turns out you can take the dog out of the streets, but you can't take the streets out of the dog.

A dog named Enzo proved that when he escaped his yard in Philadelphia and went on a doggy joyride — running wild and free down a busy highway, forcing the police to chase him down.

Video of the incident showed how Enzo brought I-95 traffic to a halt at 7:20 a.m. on Friday morning when he weaved through traffic, evading police officers chasing him on foot, local ABC affiliate WPVI-TV reported. He even got hit by a truck at one point but jumped right back up and kept running, apparently unfazed.

Leisa Zurbaran, Enzo's owner, said he escaped her yard as she got ready for work.

"All I heard was 'bang!' No landing, no barking, no nothing. I looked back and he was running," Zurbaran WPVI-TV. "It was traumatizing, I was stressed the whole day."

Zurbaran called the local animal control and frantically searched social media. She lucked out when someone sent her a link to a news report.

"She showed me the news, I was like, 'I think that's my dog,'" Zurbaran told WPVI. "I went into the link, there were so many videos of him and I'm like, 'Oh yeah that's my dog.'"

After a chase, Pennsylvania State Police eventually cornered the dog and brought him to safety, WPVI reported.

They took Enzo to a pet care center in Langhorne, where staff reported Enzo was in good condition after being examined by a vet.

"He definitely went through a little bit of trauma. You can definitely tell by his body language, the heavy panting, he's definitely still nervous," Angela Carpino, the general manager of Town and Country Pet Care Center, told WPVI.

Zurbaran told the outlet she plans to have Enzo microchipped after the fiasco.

"I'm pretty sure he's going to sleep like a baby tonight," Zurbaran told WPVI.