A 71-year-old Pennsylvania woman became the third person in a month, and the second in three days, to be gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service announced in a press release.
After hiking, the woman and her daughter unwittingly approached the bison at a trailhead where the women had parked. The startled bison charged at the women, striking the older woman. The woman was transported to a regional hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to the NPS, this is the third time this year that a hazardous interaction between a bison and a human happened at Yellowstone: On May 30, a woman approached a bison near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, and a man approached a bison near a boardwalk at Giant Geyser on June 28.