An angry wild elephant smashed the windscreen of a car with its sharp tusk.

The lone jumbo stopped traffic at Khao Yai National Park where it damaged one of the vehicles in Nakhon Nayok province, Thailand on October 30.

Footage shows the animal approaching the sedan before the long ivory attack mechanism pierced through the glass at the front of the driver's side.

The startled traveller Phoomin Tipsong jerked on his seat as the video shook when the windscreen cracked.

He said: 'I thought it was going to hurt me. It was so big and strong, it could have easily smashed my car.'

The elephant left afterwards while no one was hurt. Traffic returned to normal when the animal returned to the forest.

Thailand has up to 3,500 elephants in the wild. The population has been increasing in recent years, but it is still a fraction of the estimated 300,000 wild elephants that lived in the country at the beginning of the 20th century.

The main threats to wild elephants in Thailand are habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and conflict with humans.