A rescue effort has left a car hurtling head first down embankment on the Gold Coast

A woman who filmed a viral towing fail of a driverless car plunging down a bank has hit back after copping flak. Subscribe to see the video

The woman who filmed a viral social media towing fail said the teenagers attempting to tow a car stuck in a ditch were “being silly” and she didn’t want to get involved.

The video posted to social media shows the moment a Nissan Patrol attempts to pull a Hyundai Getz back onto the road at Lower Beechmont.

As the car leaves the ditch, a man appears in the footage chasing after the vehicle.

“Oh Sh**, sh**, sh**, No one is in the car!” a bystander says as the hatchback continues rolling down the road and gathering pace.

“Oh my god, there is going to be an accident,” another woman yells.

Before the man can get within a metre of the Getz it goes hurtling over the side of an embankment and slams into dense bushland below.

Lily Georget, who filmed the viral video, said she was two kilometres from the top of the mountain when she saw the car hooked up to another.

Car rolls down embankment on the Gold Coast. Picture: Lilly Georget

“[My mum and I] just saw this car, the Patrol with a strap that goes into a big hole,” Ms Georget said.

“It wasn’t strangers trying to help someone, they were there all together.”

Ms Georget said the Patrol and Hyundai were still down the embankment on her way back down the hill.

“On the way back down, they were still there, but they had someone else with them. It must be one of their friends, it was another Patrol.

“I think they might have had a go at pulling it back up again because the car that [the Patrol] was hooked up to had been pulled down to the edge a little bit more.”

“There have been a few comments on the post I put up that said the Patrol is still there because they can’t actually unhook it... there’s too much tension on the Patrol that they can’t actually get the strap off,” she said.

Ms Georget also said she’d had some nasty comments on the video.

“A lot of people give me sh-t for not helping and stopping. The fact they told us they were being silly, that attitude and all that like, you don’t want to help, you know.

“I also had my newborn in the car and I didn’t want to be involved or anything,” she said.

No one was injured from the incident.

The video, which was posted to Instagram, has racked up thousands of views in just 24 hours with strangers sending their support and best wishes to those involved.

The Getz as it goes rolling down the embankment. Picture: Lilly Georget

Originally published as A rescue effort has left a car hurtling head first down embankment on the Gold Coast