Imagine you're driving down the road when suddenly you feel something slithering up your leg. That was the terrifying reality for one Australian woman. The woman was driving on a busy highway when she found a deadly snake slithering up her leg.

Authorities arrived to help the woman after they received reports of her “attempting to flag down passing vehicles” while walking barefoot along the Monash Freeway in Melbourne at around 10:40 a.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 30, Victoria Police said in a statement.

Police in Australia said a woman was forced to fend off a deadly tiger snake in her vehicle while driving 50 miles per hour on a freeway outside Melbourne.

Tiger snakes, named after their colored stripes, are among the most venomous snakes in the world, according to the state's wildlife department.

A woman in Australia realized she had a dangerous passenger onboard while driving 50 miles per hour on the Monash Freeway in Melbourne. On November 30 at 10:40 a.m., Victoria Police located the unidentified woman barefoot on the side of the road after she’d fought a tiger snake in her car.

A woman narrowly escaped a potentially deadly encounter with a venomous tiger snake that slithered up her leg while she was driving.

A driver cruising down a highway in eastern Australia felt something on her foot and discovered a deadly tiger snake "slithering up her leg", police said Sunday.