Imagine driving along a regional Queensland highway alone when you spot an angry brown snake slithering towards your leg.
With his heart-racing uncontrollably, 27-year-old Gladstone man ‘Jimmy’ experienced just that while driving at 100km/hour on the Dawson Highway west of Calliope around 5pm on June 15.
“I’m driving along at 100, and I just started to brake,” Jimmy said.
“…And the more I moved my legs… it just started to wrap around me. Its head just started striking at the (driver’s seat) chair, between my legs.”
Jimmy used a seat belt and a work knife he had in the ute to fight off the snake off while trying to stop the car.
Fearing he had already been bitten and his life was in danger, Jimmy believed he had no other option but to kill the snake and take it with him to hospital.
A local road policing officer spotted the utility travelling at 123km/h and quickly
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