People (especially children) are regularly chased down and sometimes kicked by elk in Scandinavia. I’ve been hunted down by these rather big animals twice in my life, but they are usually very peaceful. (They don’t care much about people who settle in their old paths. So they just ignored my entire family when they stayed in our garden.)
But mothers with calves are always a bit paranoid and aggressive. A friend of my brother was kicked by an elk as a child, in the head, but was back at school the next day. A friend of the family was attacked while in her car after a near car accident involving a mother and calf. If this woman was killed by an elk, she must have been extremely unlucky, that’s for sure.

Doug