‘So scary!’: Dashcam footage shows creepy moment man approaches driver in Brisbane
Dashcam footage shows the creepy moment a man approaches a car on a quiet Brisbane road – as a grim theory about the encounter emerges.
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Creepy dashcam footage has captured the “scary” moment a man has attempted to block a driver on a Brisbane road in a suspected carjacking.
The footage, shared on Facebook over the weekend, shows a man slowly walking down Pineland Road at Sunnybank Hills, about 20km from Brisbane’s CBD, on Saturday night.
As the driver approaches, the man can be seen walking towards the car before pivoting to the side in an attempt to block his path.
Thinking quickly, the driver does a U-turn before driving away in the opposite direction.
“So scary!! My other half was also in the car,” the driver wrote on Facebook, according to the Daily Mail.
“’Good to get home safe! Thank God.”
Others were quick to express their concern on Facebook, with some suggesting the late night encounter may have been a possible hijacking.
“They make you stop then steal your car … a lot of it going on in the area unfortunately, stay safe,” one person commented.
“Waiting for you to slow down and grab the car,” said another.
It comes after dascham footage captured another disturbing incident on Brisbane’s roads earlier this year when a woman appeared to leap out in front of a car in a suspected “insurance fraud incident”.
In the video, posted by the Dash Cam Owners Australia Facebook page in May, the woman appeared to brace herself and jump up towards the bonnet of the car as the driver broke, knocking her to the ground in Browns Plains, south of Brisbane.
“Dashcam footage of alleged insurance fraud incident,” the page wrote.
“There were several people approaching from behind the vehicle instantly after the incident, driver fled due to risk of carjacking/suspecting a fraudulent claim at 3am in Browns Plains.”
A Queensland Police spokeswoman at the time said the driver had reported the incident to police.
Originally published as ‘So scary!’: Dashcam footage shows creepy moment man approaches driver in Brisbane
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