elephant overturns and tramples British teacher’s car

A bull elephant overturned a British teacher’s car in a national park in South Africa.
 
The clip, recorded by shocked tourists in the car behind, shows the elephant trample on the vehicle at the Kruger National Park on December 30.
Sarah Brooks, who lives in Lincolnshire, was taken to hospital after being wounded by one of the elephant’s tucks after it penetrated the car.


She was discharged from hospital this week following the aggressive attack in which a man, believed to be her partner, suffered less serious injuries.
The footage shows the angry elephant standing in front of the car before turning it upside down with the couple still inside and ‘completely flattening it’.
‘Of course they were totally frightened but also thankful that they were alive,’ William Mabasa, general manager at the park, told the BBC.
‘The car is a wreck, if I may put it that way.
 
‘I mean it was completely flattened but fortunately the elephant concentrated on the back of the car, that’s why we still have our guests alive now as I speak.’
The park believes the male elephant’s ‘abnormal behaviour’ was because it was ‘on musth’, a periodic condition in which high testosterone levels make the animals more aggressive.
‘The elephant had to be put down. Since it was in its musth phase, the elephant had gotten into a fight with another dominant bull before and was very aggressive,’ said SA National Parks spokesman Ike Phaahla.

Kruger National Park is popular with tourists