Easter Island, the South Pacific territory home to some 1,000 sacred “moai” statues, now has one less of them.

A resident of the Polynesian island crashed his truck into one of the revered stone figures on March 1, badly damaging the statue and the platform it stood upon, CNN reports.

The statues represent ancestral figures and could have been a tool to show sources of fresh water.

Authorities believe the unidentified man’s truck suffered a brake failure, causing it to slide down a hill and slam into the statue. He was arrested that same day.

“The damage is incalculable,” Camilo Rapu, the president of Easter Island’s indigenous Rapa Nui community, told CNN in a statement, adding, “The Moai are sacred structures of religious value for the Rapa Nui people … Furthermore [the damage of the moai] is an offense to a culture that has lived many years struggling to recover its heritage and archaeology.”

Pedro Pablo Petero Edmunds Paoa, the mayor of Easter Island, will reportedly call for greater regulations to prevent vehicles from cruising near the statues. He tried and failed to pass one such measure in 2012, and reckons this incident could give good reason to re-introduce the proposal.

Car-related destruction isn’t the only issue the moai face.

An increase in tourists to the 63-square-mile island — due to a greater volume of flights and docked cruise ships — has brought with it some naughty tourist behavior. For instance, visitors pose for photos showing them picking the statues’ noses, climb on them, sit on graves and stomp through prohibited spaces.

The island is a territory of Chile and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

CNN says measures to curb the island’s over-tourism were put in place in 2018, which included a policy to change the 90-day visa for foreigners and non-Rapa Nui Chileans to only 30 days.