NEW TECUMSETH, Ont. – Police say they expect to lay charges against the driver of a tractor-trailer carrying 40 cows that collided with a pickup truck on Highway 89 northwest of Toronto.
Ontario Provincial Police said the trailer rolled over after the crash near New Tecumseth on Wednesday morning.
They say both drivers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
OPP spokesman Paul Nancekivell says it appears the transport truck driver was at fault and police are in the process of deciding what charges to lay.
Police say 12 of the cows escaped and had to be corralled at a nearby farm.
Others were trapped in the truck and two had to be euthanized by a veterinarian due to injuries sustained in the crash.
Kathleen Del Chiaro, a member of animal rights organization Toronto Pig Save, came to the scene of the crash Wednesday afternoon.
Del Chiaro said she hoped the farmer who owns the cows might be willing to let any injured animals be taken to a sanctuary she recently established in Mount Forest, Ont.
“If a cow can’t walk they are deemed not fit for slaughter, so at that point I feel as though a farmer might be more open to that type of thing,” she said.
Police could not confirm where the cows were being transported.
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