Brisbane mum Kalinda Salla issues warning after man in a ute started following her while driving

A mum has issued a warning after she was followed by a man in a ute for 20 minutes while she was driving with her son in the back of the car. 

Kalinda was left shaken by the terrifying ordeal that occurred after she saw a man winking and raising his eyebrows at her while they were both waiting at a red light. 

The driver started following her, copying her every move, and eventually stopped his pursuit as other drivers started honking their horn at him.

‘Girls be aware, I don’t know what his intentions were but he pretty much only p***ed off because other cars started beeping at him,’ the mum-of-one said. 

Kalinda said she was driving in Brisbane when she noticed the man in a dark grey Mitsubishi ute next to her at the traffic lights. 

Kalinda, who is a pharmacist and business owner, said she was driving in Brisbane when she noticed the man in a dark grey Mitsubishi ute next to her at the traffic lights

‘He just kept staring at me making the seediest looking faces, winking, raising his eyebrows so I just wound up the window and tried to ignore it,’ she said. 

Kalinda said the driver started to go in the same direction as her and slow down and speed up at the same time. 

‘The whole time he’s driving, he just keeps looking at me into the car, it was just really creepy,’ she recounted. 

She came to an intersection with two lanes, one for those turning left and another for drivers turning right.  

The driver started following her, copying her every move, and eventually stopped his pursuit as other drivers started honking their horn at him but was left ‘shaken’ by the ordeal

‘I decided to go right and then at the very last minute, I cross over the white line to go left. He does the exact same thing,’ she said.

After the man continued to follow Kalinda, she decided to quickly dodge into a toll road tunnel but he stayed on her tail. 

‘We go into this toll tunnel, I then slow down to 40, he then slows down to 40 still up my a**. I speed up, he speeds up, this just kept going on and on and on,’ she said. 

The man continued to match Kalinda’s speed to stay beside her, blocking other cars from getting around them in the two-lane tunnel. 

‘He’s making the creepiest looking faces. My son in the back is getting really scared then my son says ‘Mum, he’s waving his phone at you’. I just refused to look at him, I kept driving,’ Kalinda said. 

‘Other cars started beeping at us because there were only two lanes in this tunnel and we were blocking off the whole tunnel.’ 

Thankfully for Kalinda, the other cars’ frustrated horns deterred the man and he went on his way. 

‘I don’t know if he was trying to get my number by waving his phone but I had a ring on my finger my son was in the back, he was crying,’ she said. 

‘I was getting really stressed out so you would know we were not interested. I refused to look at him.’

Kalinda shared the scary incident in a TikTok video that racked up more than 236,500 views in less than 24 hours. 

Many were shocked by the driver’s behaviour and offered their advice for what people should do if they find themselves in a similar scenario. 

‘NEVER play car tag or go home. Drive to nearest police station, fire station or even Bunnings timber drive-in etc,’ one woman commented. 

‘There are cameras all in the tunnel if you report it they should be able to get footage of this,’ another said. 

‘If it ever happens again, make sure your car doors are locked and drive to the nearest police station,’ a third added. 

‘If you don’t know where the nearest police station is an option is call a family member or friend and ask them to find it for you while on the phone,’ suggested a fourth.