This is the jaw-dropping moment a French family narrowly escapes being attacked by a coalition of cheetahs in a Dutch safari park.
Video footage filmed by a witness shows the tourists being chased by the cheetahs after getting out of their car to take photos.
Beekse Bergen is a drive-through African wildlife safari park in the southern Netherlands where visitors are under strict instruction not to leave their cars.
Danger: The family had gotten out of their car – despite the safari park;s strict instructions not to do so – near the cheetahs, which came running after them
However, the family of five appeared to have missed this instruction and got out in the middle of the park where some cheetahs were sunning themselves – twice.
The tourists in the car behind them cannot believe their eyes, when two women, a man and a child climb out of a French-registered car to take snaps of the predators.
They they drive a little further down the road and get out again, stepping onto a small hill a few dozen feet away from where the cheetahs were resting.
Unsurprisingly, the cheetahs – the world’s fastest land animal – got up and started to run towards the group, seemingly made up of three adults and two children.
Madness: Despite knowing fully well that they were in close proximity of the fastest animal on the planet, and a predator to boot, the family got out of their car with their small children
That takes guts: The mother picks up the youngest child and shoos off the cheetahs
Last mad dash: Amazingly, all five people from the group make it back to their car
The tourists spot the cheetahs at the last minute and make a panicked dash for the car.
The all run for their lives, bar one of the women, who is seen picking up the youngest child and shoo-ing at the cheetahs as she strides to the car.
They all manage to get back into their vehicle and drive off, to the amazement of the Dutch person behind the camera.
A spokesman Beekse Bergen park told that they make it very clear that it is forbidden to leave your vehicle.
‘We inform visitors about the risks in several languages throughout the park,’ the spokesman told Dutch broadcaster NOS.