Around 3 am on Monday morning, a tractor trailer carrying about 38 cows, left the Southwest Sudbury Bypass highway and crashed into a rock cut.
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The aftermath was a macabre scene with bits of twisted metal mixed with the moans of dying cattle.
The driver of the transport was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The driver was later charged with careless driving by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).
A veterinarian was called in from Sturgeon Falls to help OPP officers determine which cows could be saved, or had to be put down.
Only two of the 38 cows survived the crash and the resulting mercy killings.
It took clean up crews well over 12 hours to secure the site. The dead cows are to be shipped to a southern Ontario rendering plant.
