One of the world's deadliest snakes has given a Queensland motorist the fright of his life.
Jimmy, 27, from Gladstone, was driving down the Dawson Highway west of Calliope in central Queensland when he saw a brown snake in the cab of his ute.
"I'm driving at 100 kilometres an hour and I just started to brake," he told police.
"And the more I moved my legs … it just started to wrap around me.
"Its head started to strike at the seat and between my legs."
Jimmy used a seat belt and a work knife to fight off the snake while bringing his ute to a stop.
He feared he had been bitten and was about to die so he killed the snake and put it in the ute's rear tray and drove off at great speed to the nearest hospital.
Video of the June 15 incident was released by the Queensland Police Service today.
Officers spotted the ute doing 123 kilometres an hour and pulled the man over.
A panic-stricken Jimmy explained what had happened, telling the traffic officer to "feel my heart".
The drama was captured on the officer's body camera.
An ambulance was called and paramedics determined Jimmy had not actually been bitten but was suffering from shock.
"It was pretty bloody terrifying," he said.
University of Queensland snake expert Associate Professor Bryan Fry said Jimmy had "good reason to freak out".
"Brown snakes have unusually fast-acting venom and can kill within 15 minutes," he said.
He said the best thing to do was remain calm and call for help rather than run around.
"The patient feels fine and then dramatically collapses and dies as the venom works so fast," he said.
Dr Fry said brown snakes were incredibly common but that only about two people a year died from snake bites in Australia.
Police said while this was a unique situation, snakes were protected under the Nature Conservation Act.
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