Snake appears on car’s bonnet while driving on Bruce Highway

A North Queensland couple have gone through a heart-stopping ordeal on the Bruce Highway, with a large snake appearing on their bonnet as they navigated a “scary” part of the road in the wet. SEE THE VIDEO>>>

A North Queensland couple have gone through a heart-stopping ordeal on the Bruce Highway, with a large snake appearing on their bonnet as they navigated a “scary” part of the road in the wet.

Giru’s Melissa Hudson and her partner Rodney Griggs ventured to Alligator Creek yesterday but their trip went south on the way home.

A large carpet snake, which Ms Hudson said was “about 3m”, appeared from nowhere on the front of their bonnet and began to make its way over the windscreen.

The snake heads up the windscreen.

The couple were in hysterics as Ms Hudson filmed the ordeal from the passenger seat.

“What are we going to do Mel?,” Mr Griggs ask while driving.

“Just keep driving, you concentrate on the road,” Ms Hudson responded while laughing.

“He can’t get in the f-cking car can he?,” Mr Griggs asks.

“How are we going to get out?”

Speaking to the Townsville Bulletin about the ordeal, Ms Hudson said it was a trip they won’t soon forget.

“I didn’t think it would go so viral,” Ms Griggs said of her video

Ms Hudson believes the snake was about 3m long.

“We were on the way back at that really scary Cungulla corner where there is nowhere to pull off safely and this snake just came out of somewhere and was all of a sudden on the bonnet of the car.

“It was quite amusing, we knew the stop sign was coming up so we could get help.”

Though Mr Griggs, who is petrified of snakes, didn’t find the incident quite as funny.

“He is so scared of snakes, I kept saying concentrate and drive. He did very well to remain clam,” Ms Hudson said.

“What if the snake had come out in the footwell and was inside the car, it would have been the easiest place to crash. It would have been horrible.”

The hero traffic controller who removed the snake.

Ms Hudson was thankful for the ‘hero’ traffic controller who came over to remove the snake from the car after they’d pulled over.

“I’m not brave enough to pick up snakes and this guy was very brave and picked it up with his hands.

The snake curled up on a saddle in Giru.

“He stopped traffic that was going to come in the other direction so it could get to the other side of the road and will hopefully live happily ever after up there.”

Ms Hudson said they lived in the wetland area of Giru where snake sightings were pretty common.

“We saw the same snake curled up on our saddle the other day and thought ‘well we’re not horse riding today, we’ll leave him there’.

“He had a big fat belly, so he was probably cleaning up all the mice around.”

Originally published as Snake appears on car’s bonnet while driving on Bruce Highway