Drive to Nagarahole - Coorg : Second event

In this event there wasn't any direct involvement though [ as the previous one ]. But the it was the chain of thoughts, which followed later is the need for the blog.

we, atlast made it to the day's last safari trip. Travel around, consisted of a rickety mini bus with 19 occupants, completed with a driver and a forest guide. The safari's sighting turned out to be good [ compared to our bandipur one, probably, it was dusk (?)] sighted a herd of elephants with 2 babies, bisons, peafowls, wild boars, the usual set of deers (chital, sambar, spotted) and a lonely tusker.
This lonely tusker was wandering close to the tarred road, he [ the tusker ] tried shooing/scaring us away with a trumpet and a mock (?) charge. Well most of us in the bus let out screams [ Probably this too must have scared him ] and later did see one/more camera flash blubs glow.

Now the questions which later haunted me were

what if we had ventured back on this road in the car, in the dark and landed up in front of this tusker?
Well, eariler, atleast we were a group, accompained with a forest gaurd, atleast had some kind of an assurance [ which could have been false ]. For sure, we [the three of us ] would be more chaotic when alone. Remember the scene from Jurassic park [ I know wrong analogy for the situation, kahan Raja bhoj aur kahan gangu thaili ] where the kids, finding themseleves alone in the mobil try some antics. One thing quite evident was we were not prepared for this kind of a situation.

What should be the right approach from us?
Agreed, none us [ Yep, including the elephants! :D ] have a "Red book of conduct between an elephant and a human" or the old jungle sayings.... :)
Googling when back to bangalore, found some links of a Kurger National Park.
And some funny (unrelated) one. Was wondering how, a reflector some 10 feet above would bounce off light from a 5 foot high truck head lamp.

Did we do right flashing lights? making sounds?
Certainly not! was the answer and spoke with one, who was in a similar situation. The things which they did were
* Stopped a couple of metres away.
* They switched off the head lights, (they too sighted it in the dark).
* Moved the gear stick to reverse and ready to back if the elephant charged
* And lastly prayed.

So, ending with the question, can we follow the stuff spoken for kurger from the above links? Hope it is applicable to the asiatic cousins too or atleast a link from the Indian forest department speaking about how prepared or how to react to such kind of situations. Or do u guys have some information on this.

next : third event