hyderabad be it cats dogs or cows city roads have turned death traps for these innocent animals what makes these deaths even more agonising is that there is no punishment and no cases are registered against the erring drivers who run over these mute animals with their vehiclesanimal rights activists are now advocating reflective collars which cost around rs 50 for stray animals that may help reduce these accidents at night as of now these collars are available online we need to spread awareness about the initiative said m teja an animal activistaccording to animal rights activists for every animal killed in a road accident three or four deaths go unnoticed even at 40 km hour speed we smell the remains of more dead dogs than we see some wounded animals walk away from the accident site in shock and die far from the road so only instantlykilled animals are seen and get counted in most cases ngo people for animals pfa chief executive officer p dattatreya joshi told stoi there is a spurt in the number of stray animals falling prey to road accidents estimates from animal rights activists indicate that at least 45 to 50 stray dogs and cattle get injured in road accidents in the city every monthwhile this is a rough estimate the numbers keep fluctuating every month and most animals which survive minor injuries in mishaps initially are infested with maggots which kill the animal in a few days m teja said a few days ago the pfa rescue team received a call that a dog was in distress at bowenpally the dog continues to be in the emergency rescue home of pfa at begum bazaar