A woman is lucky she wasn’t involved in a serious accident when she noticed a deadly Tiger snake slithering up her leg while she was driving on the Monash Freeway.
Police say they were called to conduct a welfare check on a woman acting ‘hiss-terically’ on the side of the road around 10:40am near the Toorak Road exit.
When police arrived at the scene the woman explained that she had been travelling at 80km/h on the freeway when she felt something on foot and looked down to find a deadly tiger snake slithering up her leg.
Remarkably, she was able to fend the snake off her and weave through traffic before pulling over and leaping out of her car to safety.
Still in a state of shock and needing to ensure she wasn’t bitten; the driver was assessed by paramedics while police pondered on how to deal with the snake.
Tim from Melbourne Snake Control was contacted, quickly identified the tiger snake (the fourth most venomous snake in the world) and volunteered his services.
The massive snake was safely removed from the vehicle.
