A motorist in South Africa came upon the arduous method what can occur in the event you annoy an elephant as the large animal rammed into and flipped over their automobile.

The incident occurred on the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Nata province earlier this month when a Ford SUV was driving by means of the park.

Footage shared on-line reveals the second the elephant began to push into the facet of the SUV, forcing two wheels off the bottom earlier than flipping it onto its facet after which onto its roof. Whereas this was occurring, a motorist filming the incident was beeping their horn, seemingly in a useless try to distract the elephant and make it cease its assault.

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The New York Publish stories that the occupants of the SUV solely suffered minor accidents within the incident and that officers from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park are investigating the incident to find out what prompted the elephant to react the way in which it did.

There are a variety of reserves and parks all through South Africa that permit vacationers to rise up and near elephants of their vehicles. Heck, we had elephants come inside ft of our tiny Kia Picanto rental automobile on a street journey by means of South Africa a number of years in the past. For probably the most half, elephants are very peaceable however evidently, one thing occurred off digital camera to essentially annoy this one. It’s lucky that it stopped attacking the SUV after flipping it onto its roof because it might have very simply prompted extra harm and badly injured the occupants.