Death of a cow on OMR

Cattle death in hit-and-runs on OMR is not uncommon. The photo was taken this morning in front of our apartments complex  - Mantri Synergy. The victim of hit-and-run, presumably, pregnant, awaits disposal. Like so many other passers-by,  my wife and I stopped by, voiced our concern and sympathy  for the animal  and cursed  the cattle owner for having  let  the cow out to fend for herself after milking.
We did the same thing - stopped by, cursed and carried on - under similar circumstances two years back. When we found, in front of our complex,  a mortally wounded cow .The scene then was that of  the cow,  foaming from the mouth, and gasping for breath. The dying animal  was being watched over by some panchayat sweepers.

This photo is taken from our earlier post (May, 2011),  in which I wrote: Padur municipal sweepers squatting by the side of the dying cow ...said they were waiting for the cow owner to turn up to claim the animal. As for the dying animal, they pleaded helplessness. There was nothing they could do, they said, other than wait for the death.  

A two-minute YouTube clip that I took, of unfettered movement of cattle at Padur.  

  

A hit-n-run on OMR

Found this cow gasping for breath as my wife and I stepped out of Mantri Synergy for a morning walk. OMR, with high traffic right through the day, gets narrow on our stretch near Padur. It is also a stretch that has stray cows parking themselves in the middle of the road, posing a traffic hazard to passing vehicles.
Cattle owners let their cows roam about on OMR freely. The road along Padur has no sidewalk (not that the roaming cattle follow road rules). And the narrow muddy patch by the roadside is un-walkable because it is littered with trash. Watching us returning from our walk the other day a helpful security guard advised we ought to be extra careful whenever we venture out of the Mantri gate. The stretch in front our complex comes under 'accident prone' zone.
On way back from the walk we ran into a group of Padur municipal sweepers squatting by the side of the dying cow. They said they were waiting for the cow owner to turn up to claim the animal. As for the dying animal, they pleaded helplessness. There was nothing they could do, they said, other than wait for the death. The dying animal was pregnant.
I must admit my wife and I couldn't think of any thing that we could have done to help. Blue Cross, pinjrapole, and Vet. hospital appeared remote from our location. And I didn't try to locate their whereabouts or contact numbers. Maybe, we ought to have their numbers readily available at our main gate security office.