This is the scary moment a wild elephant chased a tourist's car in Thailand.

Footage shows the jumbo approaching the vehicle as it was backing up to avoid it in Chachoengsao province, on January 23.

Driver Rungthip Ketpradit said: 'I think the elephant was trying to eat the vegetable kept in the back of my pickup truck. I was scared but it didn't hurt us.'

No one was reported hurt in the incident.

Thailand has an estimated 2,000 Asian elephants living in the wild but there is often conflict when they come into contact with humans on roads and in villages. A similar number of elephants are kept captive where they work in zoos and are hired out for religious festivals and weddings.

Conservationists even believe that some elephants have even evolved to prefer food from humans driving passing cars over the jungle food.