Mbombela - A man driving outside the Kruger National Park had a terrifying experience early on the morning of Friday, 26 November, after a fully grown hippo smashed into his car and gouged its teeth into it. Wikus Ceronie, 26, a technician from Middelburg, was on his way back from working in Mozambique when he noticed a hippo on the bridge he was driving across. "There were people walking around in the nearby vicinity so I automatically assumed this hippo was used to humans.