Saturday, 25 January 2014
British teacher gored by elephant tells how tourists left her for dead
A British teacher who was gored by a rampaging elephant on a holiday safari has told how she was left for dead by fellow tourists who drove off after filming her horrific ordeal.
Sarah Brooks, 30, was targeted by the enraged elephant when she accidentally
slipped her hire car into first gear when trying to reverse away it in South
Africa’s Kruger National Park last month.
“It was horrendous,” she told the Daily
Mail. “The elephant was coming towards us, so I swung round to do a
three-point turn but couldn’t get it into reverse. I completely freaked.”
Miss Brooks, who teaches science at a school in Spalding, Lincolnshire,
recalled her rising panic with her fiancé, 32-year-old Jans de Klerk, in the
passenger seat. “I remember asking: ‘Has he gone? Has he gone?’ That’s when
he bashed into us. I froze, just like a rabbit in the headlights.”
The couple eventually managed to find reverse gear but couldn’t escape the
elephant’s 6ft-long tusks, which tipped over the Volkswagen. “I remember
thinking, ‘We’re never going to be able to drive away now’. At that moment,
your life flashes through your head,” she said.
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