Since I can't handle hearing, reading, or seeing, hurt animal stories (i.e., dogs stuck on a frozen lake, horses down fallen wells, etc.), I wasn't going to click on this. But when I realized you were talking about French tourists, I didn't mind so much! LOL!
Thats, why i never understood why americans love to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, all it was was the Mexican's whipping up on the French, thats no great accomplishment......everybody whips up on them.
Terrain like that can be very deceiving. As soon as they saw they were making tire tracks like the one's in the picture they should have headed to high ground, and never cross a soggy runoff rut in the muck.