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If you suffer from Ophidiophobia, look away now. A Victorian woman has fortunately emerged unharmed after tangling with a tiger snake while driving city-bound on Melbourne’s busy Monash Freeway. Police were called to conduct a welfare check on a barefoot woman flagging down passing cars on the side of the freeway near the Toorak Road exit on Saturday morning.
Incredibly, the terrified driver was able to exit her vehicle without sustaining a bite from the large snake, which is among the top five most venomous species in the world. Nevertheless, she was taken to hospital for observation. Police called Tim Nanninga from Melbourne Snake Control to extract the reptile from the Toyota Kluger. “If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times… no two days are the same at Victoria Police,” said a Victoria Police spokesperson.
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