A truck driver has been charged after 86 goats had been discovered useless on a New South Wales freeway.
Police mentioned the 51-year-old man was travelling east on the Kamilaroi Freeway, between Bourke and Brewarrina, when he allegedly drove via a street closure signal and into floodwaters at about 9pm on December 7.
The motive force referred to as emergency companies after the truck grew to become caught.
He was taken to Bourke Hospital for evaluation.
The subsequent day police had been informed about 78 useless goats alongside a two-kilometre stretch of the freeway.
An additional eight goats had been discovered critically injured and needed to be euthanised.
They issued him with a courtroom attendance discover for disregarding a barrier regulating site visitors by passing in car, committing an act of aggravated cruelty upon an animal, and being the motive force of car injuring animal fail to alleviate ache.
The South Australia man is because of seem at Bourke Native Courtroom on February 23.