Sunrise host Natalie Barr has offered a truck driver a TV reporting job after he recounted the moment he jumped in to stop a tradie from assaulting a driver with a metal pole following a multi-vehicle crash.
Brisbane truck driver Stephen Pastor was at the lights at the intersection of Hellawell and Beaudesert roads between Acacia Ridge and Sunnybank Hills in the city's south on Monday morning.
Mr Pastor, who has been a truck driver for eight years, explained what happened next was the 'craziest thing he had ever seen'.
Footage, which he shared with Dashcam Owners Australia, showed a blue Mazda hatchback speeding through the intersection.
The traffic lights were red for 17 seconds before the Mazda barrelled into traffic, colliding with a white Toyota hatchback.
The Toyota was put into a 360-degree spin then smashed into a red Mazda SUV in the adjacent lane.
All three cars came to a complete stop in the middle of the intersection.
A shocked Mr Pastor is heard yelling 'holy f**' before jumping out of his truck and running to the aid of the Toyota driver while calling emergency services.
Nat Barr jokingly offered truck driver Stephen Pastor a job as a reporter for Sunrise after he gave a detailed and eloquent recount of a multi-vehicle crash in Sunnybank, Brisbane
Mr Pastor's dashcam footage captured the moment a blue Mazda hatchback speed through a red light and smashed into traffic (pictured)
Barr was Impressed by Mr Pastor's eloquent and detailed recounting of the incident.
'Okay Stephen, what a shocking thing to witness and if you need a job as a reporter you can join Sunrise, okay?,' Barr said.
Mr Pastor replied with a smile: 'You've got my details Nat!'
Mr Pastor told Barr he was surprised no one died or was seriously injured in the multi-vehicle crash.
'She [the Toyota driver] was very lucky to escape with some minor injuries,' Mr Pastor said.
'If she had have been a couple of seconds earlier, you can see by the vision right in front of you that she would have been T-bone square and fair on the driver's door there. It is horrifying to see.'
Mr Pastor's quick thinking and heroic actions after the crash stopped a brawl between the offending driver and an angry tradie who also witnessed the crash.
The driver collides with a white Toyota hatchback, which does a 360-degree spin before smashing into a red Mazda SUV in the adjacent lane (pictured)
Mr Pastor said he spotted a tradie brandishing a metal pole run towards the Mazda driver who was walking away from the scene.
'I've kind of bolted over,' Mr Pastor said. 'He [tradie] lifted it up towards his [blue Mazda driver] head.
'I grabbed him by the shirt and said, "Mate, it's not worth it. Let the cops look after it." He looked up at me and shook his head and said, "Yeah, I guess you're right".'
Mr Pastor described the incident as 'confronting' and said he was glad the interaction between the tradie and the driver 'did not go any further'.
The pole-wielding tradie alleged the offending driver had hit his car at a nearby supermarket before the intersection collision.
Barr asked Pastor if the tradie was 'taking the law into his own hands'.
'I don't want to speculate, but I guess he was quite angry, which is understandable,' Mr Pastor said.
'If you have been hit and someone bolts, your natural instinct, for some people to, is give chase. I guess that's the situation he was in.
'I'm glad that he didn't use that metal pole any further. I'm not going to speak on his behalf but I can see both sides and where he's coming from.'
Mr Pastor spotted the tradie, who was wielding a metal pole, running towards the offending driver (left). The truck driver quickly intervened and stopped the tradie urging him to 'let the cops look after it' (right)
A 26-year-old Carseldine man was charged following the crash.
'It will be alleged at approximately 9.45am a blue Mazda 3 was travelling south on Beaudesert Road when it failed to stop at a red light near Hellawell Road,' Queensland Police said.
'It will be further alleged the car then struck two other vehicles, a Mazda CX30 and a Toyota Yaris. The driver of the Mazda 3 was taken into police custody at the scene.'
The man is scheduled to face Richlands Magistrates Court on August 6 charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle and driving under the influence.
