A wild elephant chased and pushed an SUV off the road in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Thursday (January 23).
State electricity board employees, junior engineer Vishwanathan and his associates Selvaraj and Santosh were on their way to Upper Azhiyar from Aanaimalai in the vehicle when the incident occurred.
As they were crossing Athaliyamman temple near Navamalai, they noticed a lone tusker blocking the road. However, before they could reverse the car, the elephant charged at the vehicle and pushed it off the road.
Although the vehicle rolled and fell about 10 feet below, all three electricity board employees escaped uninjured.
In another similar incident, albeit in Kerala, a group of people was terrified after a wild elephant charged at the car they were travelling in, in Athirapally.
On January 19, a family of three, including a toddler, narrowly escaped danger after a wild elephant charged at them in Wayanad, Kerala.
In Tamil Nadu, a 65-year-old man was killed by a wild elephant while collecting firewood near the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Erode district.