{"id":31557,"date":"2025-07-29T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31557\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:29:13","slug":"viral-video-shows-crocodile-stuck-under-vehicle-at-cahills-crossing-in-kakadu-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31557\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video shows crocodile stuck under vehicle at Cahills Crossing in Kakadu National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A video of a large crocodile becoming stuck underneath a ute at a notorious river crossing in the Northern Territory has gone viral online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Nearly four million people have watched the video on social media platform TikTok since it was shared on Monday by user Matteo Mastratisi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The footage shows a vehicle driving over a crocodile at Cahills Crossing in Kakadu National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The infamous crossing, which passes through the East Alligator River, is known for its high population of crocodiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Speaking to ABC News Breakfast, Mr Mastratisi said he was filming Cahills Crossing to show his friend, who lives on the eastern side of the river in the <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-22\/nt-gunbalanya-aboriginal-health-clinic-closing-the-gap\/105470546\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/105470546\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remote community of Gunbalanya.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-22\/nt-gunbalanya-aboriginal-health-clinic-closing-the-gap\/105470546\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The unlikely killers near Australia&#8217;s most dangerous river crossing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">First Nations people living in the remote Northern Territory are still not expected to reach their 70th birthday. A rare visit inside one of the NT&#8217;s oldest bush clinics demonstrates why.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The driver had no idea there was a croc there, you couldn&#8217;t see the croc under the water,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The driver goes and hits a bump. You wouldn&#8217;t want to stop in the middle of a crossing, especially a croc-infested crossing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;As soon as it was safe to do so, he stopped. I don&#8217;t even think the driver knew what was stuck under the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Mastratisi said the scene took him by surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;In the last 10 years of doing work [in Arnhem Land], I have never seen a car get stuck on a crocodile,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime video capture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NT crocodile expert Grahame Webb said he would be surprised if the crocodile was permanently injured after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;They are tough and they&#8217;ve got amazing abilities to fight any infection,&#8221; Professor Webb said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;They&#8217;re pretty well-armoured. They&#8217;re great survival machines so I doubt the croc is seriously injured by this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video of a large crocodile becoming stuck underneath a ute at a notorious river crossing in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[19271,19272,19274,19277,19276,19273,90,617,56,54,55,19275,5793,2259,4407],"class_list":["post-31557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cahills-crossing","tag-crocodiles","tag-east-alligator-river","tag-kakadu-national-park","tag-run-over","tag-saltwater-crocodiles","tag-science","tag-tiktok","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-ute","tag-video","tag-viral","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}