Woman slashed with machete at car wash during horror attack

The chilling incident unfolded at a car wash, where the woman had been vacuuming her car.

A woman has been slashed with a machete while cleaning her car at a car wash.

The incident unfolded at the Ezy Bay car wash on Bay Rd in Cheltenham at 11.10am on Saturday.

The alleged offenders, believed to be a man and woman, drove through the wrong entry of the car wash.

It is alleged they jumped out of the Subaru and attacked the woman, slicing her hand.

A woman was attacked with a machete while vacuuming her hatchback at a car wash in Melbourne’s southeast on Saturday. Picture: 9News

“She was quite distressed, you could see she was going into shock when she started shivering,” witness Jarod told Nine.

“She had a slash on her wrist which was bleeding quite heavily.

“She also looked like she’d lost the tip of her finger and her fingernail, so she was in a lot of pain.”

It is understood the alleged offenders fled the scene with the woman’s handbag and phone.

One witness said it appeared a 37-year-old woman lost the tip of her finger after a random machete attack at a Cheltenham car wash on Saturday. Picture: 9News

It comes after the same armed pair reportedly slashed a 73-year-old man three times in Keysborough on Friday night.

It comes as a 24-year-old Footscray man suffered life-threatening machete stab wounds during a separate assault in Footscray on Friday night.

The young man was allegedly attacked by a group in Albert Street just before 9.30pm, and was later taken to hospital in a serious condition.

Originally published as Woman slashed with machete at car wash during horror attack