High speed smash caught on camera as car flies from the road and lands sideways in carpark

The vehicle left the roadway, ploughing through a garden bed and down an embankment, crash landing in a shopping centre carpark. WATCH THE VIDEO

An out-of-control car has ploughed through a garden bed and down an embankment, slamming into a carpark just metres from a busy gym.

CCTV captured the moment the Toyota Rav 4 left the roadway along Olsen Ave just before midnight on Wednesday. In a split second, the fast moving vehicle mounts the gutter and is airborne, smashing through three street signs and a small brick retaining wall.

Out of control car airborne as it slams into the garden bed.

It came to rest about a metre down an embankment rolling onto its side. Daniel Keane was among several others training at a gym a few metres away when he heard the crash landing.

“It was the headlights that caught my attention, they shone through the glass doors and were bright. It was loud. I just saw the smoke and like bits of the car lying there” he said.

“We kinda all just looked at each other and were like is this for real? When we came outside to help that's when I knew something was sus. I dunno, how’d he walk away?”

The moment the vehicles driver manages to escape through the passenger side door.

As a cyclist and passing motorists pulled over and raced to the car the passenger door swung open. A man emerges and jumps from the car, he appeared to be limping as he tries to escape in front of stunned bystanders.

“He yelled something like oi where do you think you’re going mate” Mr Keane said referring to a witness who chased after the driver.

The man set upon a vehicle stopped in the carpark in what appears to be an attempted carjacking.

Seconds later the man approached an Audi that had stopped in the carpark. He repeatedly punched the windscreen and tried to open the drivers doors in what appears to be an attempted carjacking. As the Audi driver makes an escape the man grabs onto the door and climbs the bonnet, refusing to let go as the car pulls onto Olsen Ave. Less than ten minutes after the chaos, police arrived at the centre, including the dog squad which helped to track the man down.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswomen says the vehicle was not stolen and a 34-year-old man was “located” at a nearby address. He was issued a $619 fine for careless driving.

Originally published as High speed smash caught on camera as car flies from the road and lands sideways in carpark