- A brazen driver has been filmed speeding the wrong way down a country road
- The vehicle crossed double lines and forced other cars to veer onto the grass
- A man was then arrested just after 12.30pm on Maitland Road near Cessnock
- He was later released on bail and will front Kurri Kurri Local Court in January
A brazen driver has been arrested after footage of a motorist speeding the wrong way down a country road was posted to Facebook.
Vehicles were forced into the breakdown lane as the Nissan Skyline GTR sedan sped through a traffic jam, crossing double lines and forcing other cars to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision.
Jess Green filmed a driver speeding towards Maitland, New South Wales, pulling into the breakdown lane and then abruptly swerving onto the wrong side of the two-lane road.
The vehicle drives toward oncoming traffic (left) forcing cars off the road onto the grass (right)
Oncoming traffic is then forced onto the grass by the side of the road, before the Nissan cuts back in front of traffic and speeds out of sight of the camera.
‘This happened today heading towards Maitland from Heddon Greta,’ Ms Green wrote. ‘Some people need to wake up!
‘We are a week out from Christmas and you… put so many people in harms way! ‘I hope the cops get you.’
A man was arrested just after 12.30pm on Maitland Road at Cessnock, taken to hospital for blood and urine tests before being escorted to the police station.
The Herald reported that the driver, 39, was charged with driving in a dangerous manner, negligent driving, overtaking to left of vehicle and not keeping left of dividing line.
He was given bail to appear at Kurri Kurri Local Court in January.
The vehicle brazenly crosses double lines to speed away on the wrong side of the country road
The video was shot from a moving vehicle by Ms Green and a male companion, who hilariously narrated the events as they unfolded, calling the driver a ‘c***sucker’ and a ‘f***ing idiot’.
Plenty of people commented on the footage, which as been viewed almost 15,000 times in less than a day, calling him a ‘f***ing gronk’ and a ‘f***wit’.
Ms Green confirmed in a post that she called the police after witnessing a man driving dangerously through a roundabout after she turned off the camera.