Close shave: Rider almost hits elephant crossing road in viral video

New Delhi, Oct 13: Riding on Indian roads can be challenging. We have seen videos of many accidents and near death experiences shared by people on social media. In one such incident, a video of person riding a scooter almost on the verge of crashing an elephant crossing a road has gone viral.

In the viral clip, one can see the person riding a scooter getting closer to the elephant in the middle of the road, she in order to avoid hitting the animal suddenly drifted to the right side. While the perplexed animal too moved in the same direction and the situation of a possible collision was just avoided within a fraction of a seconds.

The video was shared on Twitter by Indian Forest Service officer Susanta Nanda has garnered thousands of views within hours. Take a look st some of the comments below:

Elephant barely managed to save herself from the lady driver, posted the IFS officer while sharing the video on his Twitter account.

"Even Elephants are aware that women driving vehicles is not safe for others on road," commented a Twitter user.

"Doesn't matter how big or strong ! No one can stand against ladies," wrote another.

"Too close for both of them," the third one commented.