SUV With 5 People Inside Drove Into 105-Degree Thermal Geyser At Yellowstone National Park

A wrong turn at Yellowstone National Park can be costly. Five people learned that the hard way this past week, and they are all miraculously safe after the SUV they were riding in ran off the road and into an hot, acidic geyser within the National park's perimeter. Officials say that the sports utility vehicle lost control and veered off the road and into the inactive thermal pool early Thursday morning. The passengers in the vehicle who were in the Wyoming portion of the park were all successfully able to escape the vehicle as it sank down into the Semi-Centennial geyser. Though the geyser is considered inactive, the group of five people still had to brave 105-degree Fahrenheit acidic water in order to swim to safety. An official statement from the National Parks Service revealed that all individuals involved in the crash had to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries: "On Thursday, July 11 at about 10:40 a.m. 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. 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." The area was blocked off on Thursday, and then the road was closed for around two hours on Friday so that work crews could extract the vehicle from the 9-foot-deep water. https://www.instagram.com/p/C9YFsb0SdhS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Semi-Centennial geyser last had an eruption in 1922, which gives the thermal pool its inactive classification. The NPS is still investigating the crash and what might have caused the vehicle to veer off the road and end up in the 105-degree water. You can view the recovery of the vehicle in the news clip below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNdQv0Txls