Driver is lucky to escape after elephant appears to try and MATE with his car in Thailand

A driver was stopped from making his journey after a 34-year-old elephant decided to climb on top of his car and mount it in a national park in Thailand. 

The large bull elephant is seen wagging his tail before lying his front legs across the car on Thanarat Road in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, on Tuesday afternoon.   

Seconds later, Duea the elephant decides to take the interaction to another level and gradually rubs himself against the car as though he is looking to mate.

An elephant was captured mounting a car in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, on Tuesday afternoon

The 35-year-old animal manages to plonk on top while the person filming in the oncoming car can be heard gasping at the encounter. 

Showing no sign of leaving, the animal stands strong and arches its back – leaving the driver and passenger Phassakorn Niltarach completely at his will.

The wild animal manages to break the car’s rear window, roof and body of the car during the brief rough and tumble. 

The elephant, which can weigh up to seven tonnes, left the car and it’s passengers at his mercy, yesterday 

Cars are brought to a stand-still as the elephant makes a beeline for one of the car’s. Drivers are advised to stop their vehicles 30 metres away from an incoming elephant, keep their engine on and back away if the animal comes close, according to a park director

The car’s exterior was crushed after the 35-year-old elephant’s rough and tumble. A park staff member has said it was the elephant’s way of greeting tourists

The wild tusker caused damage to the front of the car but would ‘never hurt anyone or any vehicles’, park director Kanchit Sarinpawan told Khaoso news today

The driver inches forward and manages to make a speedy exit from the elephant’s grip.

While storming up the road, the camera reveals the car’s broken exterior and the elephant looks on longingly.

Phassakorn Niltarach was a passenger in the car

Meanwhile park staff revealed the gesture was Duea’s way of ‘greeting’ tourists during the transition between wet and cold seasons, on Tuesday night.

The middle-aged elephant would ‘never hurt anyone or any vehicles’, park director Kanchit Sarinpawan told Khaoso news today.

Drivers are advised to stop their vehicles 30 metres away from an incoming elephant, keep their engine on and back away if the animal comes close. 

They should not stop to take photos as this poses danger to vehicles, according the Khao Yai park in Pak Chong district of Nakhon Ratchasima province. 

Visitors have harassed elephants at this national park, as seen in a video where group filmed themselves telling an elephant: ‘Come on, fatty! What are you, a model walking in the middle of the road?’

National Park officials spent their time trying to find the group, in April 2017.       

And a hungry elephant was captured rummaging through pick-up trucks for food along the same strip of road in December.