If you suffer from ophidiophobia, look away now.
A Victorian woman luckily escaped unharmed after she tangled with a tiger snake while driving into the city on Melbourne’s busy Monash Freeway.
Police were called to carry out a welfare check on a barefoot woman who was stopping passing cars on the side of the motorway near the Toorak Road exit on Saturday morning.
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Officers arrived to find the woman in a state of shock, explaining that she had felt a snake slither down her leg while traveling at 80km/h on a city street.
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Faced with overwhelming fear, she gathered her composure and moved into the left lane before pulling into the emergency lane.
Incredibly, the terrified driver managed to get out of her vehicle without being bitten by the large snake, which is among the five most venomous species in the world. However, she was taken to hospital for observation.
Police called Tim Naninga from Melbourne to get the reptile out of the Toyota Kluger.
“If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times … no two days at Victoria Police are the same,” a Victoria Police spokesman said.
Mr Naninga pulled the snake out from under the back seats before packing it in a sack and moving it away from the public.
Tiger snakes can be found right across the southern regions of Australia, including densely populated areas such as inner Melbourne.
It was a lucky escape for the unsuspecting driver as the tiger snake is considered extremely dangerous to humans due to its large size, aggressive defensive behavior and toxic venom.
