UPDATED with man taken to hospital for evaluation

ST. LOUIS • A naked man was arrested early Thursday after motorists reported him walking in traffic and dancing on Interstate 44.

It happened at about 6:15 a.m. on eastbound I-44 near Jamieson Avenue and Arsenal Street.

Traffic was backed up as motorists slowed to watch.

Before St. Louis police arrived at the scene, the Shrewsbury police department found the man, 23, said Leah Freeman, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis Police Department.

The officers gave him a blanket and had him sitting on the side of the road next to the police car. The man jumped on top of the Shrewsbury police car before officers got him down and put him inside the car, Freeman said.

EMS officers arrived on the scene and took the man to the hospital for evaluation. He also was treated for scratches to his leg from an unknown cause.

The police car was not damaged.