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5 people escape hot, acidic pond after SUV drove into inactive geyser in Yellowstone National Park

apnews.com 5 people escape hot, acidic pond after SUV drove into inactive geyser in Yellowstone National Park

Five people were able to escape a hot, acidic pond in Yellowstone National Park after the sport utility vehicle they were riding in went off the road and into an inactive geyser.

Five people were able to escape a hot, acidic pond in Yellowstone National Park after the sport utility vehicle they were riding in went off the road and into an inactive geyser, park officials said Friday.

The passengers were able to get out of the 105 degree Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) water on their own after the crash Thursday morning and were taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said in a statement.

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This title and text make it sound like the SUV just drove itself off the road and into the water, not some idiot distracted driver.
- Poor SUV and driver, the geyser just crossed the road unexpectedly
  
  Hey, that geiser was three times over the legal limit. It was hot acid and whiskey.
- Probably because a cause has not officially been determined.
- There are minimal details available.
  
  What makes you say distracted driver?
  
  Heart attack, stroke, seizure, bee sting, wasp, spider bite, snakes, malfunction of the vehicle, vehicle unknowingly damaged, avoiding wildlife, avoiding other drivers, spilled hot coffee, incidental choking, heat exhaustion, dehydration, bald tires, poorly maintained road without proper signage, Maybe someone's cell phone battery blew up and it startled the driver.
  
  There's 1000 reasons a car accident can happen. We don't need to assume the worst in people.
  
  I'm all for a little shame if we find out they were hammered listening to bon Jovi with their heads out the window, yeah. But like, chill.
  
  No lie. And besides, the author would be a fool to even hint at the driver's culpability with no information. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
  
  Since they got out on their own and walked away from it, you can rule out the more serious medical possibilities
  
  All of those things are possible, but statistically, being distracted is far more likely than any of them... More likely than most of them combined, even.
  
  Hey now! You rightly shame someone for assuming the driver was distracted, but then you turn around and escalate the shaming? We don't have any reason to believe that the driver is a fan of Bon Jovi.
  
  Your whole list would result in varying degrees of distraction.
  
  Hot take, all of those are the driver's fault. Aside from unexpected health conditions, but you don't see people just walking down the street and falling over every day. Heck, you get your license suspended if your doctor even thinks you have a risk of seizures.
  
  If you can't control your car in any of those other conditions, and/or avoid those conditions, you should not be behind the wheel of a deadly vehicle.
- Oh shit we must of miss that one, but Friday we saw the lady who drove her car off into the woods near West Yellowstone entrance.
- So it was a Tesla on autopilot?
"if you kids don't start behaving I'm going to turn this car around and drive straight into a pool of hot acid!"
Hot, acidic Pond?

Sounds like Amy was in a bad mood.

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