A passing motorist has captured dramatic footage of a woman driving the wrong way down Tonkin Highway before hitting a concrete barrier, causing a major pile up.
The 49-year-old woman drove her blue Hyundai Getz into oncoming traffic along the busy highway in Kewdale about 8.10pm on Thursday.
The crash happened past the Great Eastern Highway intersection in Redcliffe and emergency services were called to respond to the accident.
In the video, you clearly hear shock in the voices of the driver and the passenger filming the video.
The car filming follows the woman along the Highway as she drives directly into oncoming traffic, at one point her small car comes close to a massive truck.
“Wahhhhh, woah woah woah woah,” the driver in the car filming yells in shock.
In the video, the woman drives down the Highway for at least three minutes.
Finally, she hits the concrete median barrier and comes to a stop.
The pair in the car filming stop and run out to assist the woman.
“You, alright? Why you drive wrong side?” the passenger asks.
“You drink?”
“No, I got lost, sorry ” the woman replies.
“It’s not sorry, maybe you kill someone, it is dangerous,” the passenger tells her.
The passenger then tells the woman to stay in the car and wait for police.
Miraculously the woman escaped major injury and was taken to St John of God Midland for treatment.
An elderly couple in a different Hyundai — an 84-year-old male driver and 80-year-old female passenger — received non-life threatening injuries and were also taken to the hospital.
The 50-year-old female driver of the Toyota was not hurt.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.
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