Five visitors to Yellowstone National Park are lucky to be alive as their vehicle crashed into a geyser thermal on Thursday morning.
On Thursday, around 10:45AM, a car with five occupants inadvertently drove off the roadway and into the Semi-Centennial Geyser thermal feature near Roaring Mountain between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction in Yellowstone National Park, according to a media release from Park officials.
All five occupants exited the vehicle on their own, and each individual was transported via ambulance to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Today, July 12, law enforcement rangers temporarily closed both lanes of the roadway near the accident in order to safely lift the car out of the thermal feature (see photos).
The vehicle was fully submerged in about nine feet of water.
The Semi-Centennial Geyser thermal feature has acidic and hot surface water temperatures (ranging around 105 degrees Fahrenheit).
After being closed for about two hours, the roadway reopened.
This incident is still under investigation at this time.
