A woman has been rushed to hospital when an eastern brown snake became entangled in her bike chain and bit her on the thigh.<\/p>\n
The woman was riding along the Northern Rivers Rail Trail near Burringbar, about 33km northwest of Byron Bay, when she ran over a 2m eastern brown snake about 1pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
NSW Ambulance rushed to the scene and transported the woman to the Tweed Valley Hospital.<\/p>\n
The Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers phoned venomous snake rescuer Sarah Mailey from I\u2019ll Catch It Snake Relocations to help remove one of the world\u2019s most venomous snakes from the bike.<\/p>\n
Ms Mailey met police who escorted her to the bike where she saw the injured snake tangled up in the chain.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe (the woman) rode over the snake, and the snake, as it got hit sort of flung up and got caught in a chain and bit her,\u201d Ms Mailey said.<\/p>\n
Police and bystanders assisted the snake rescuer so she could untangle the highly venomous snake from the bike chain.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they could help me untangle it I had to contain the snake, put it in a bag, take it away, and unfortunately euthanise it due to the extent of the injuries,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a difficult one, it was more just dangerous because I had to contain the head, I couldn\u2019t exactly untangle the snake. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for the members of the public and the police being brave enough to assist, I would have had to hold the snake and wait for someone else to come and assist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Mailey said while snakes slowed down during winter, it was not uncommon for them to be moving around.<\/p>\n
She said they found a space to spend winter in April and May then stayed there unless it warmed up during winter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it warms up enough it gives them a false sense of security that it\u2019s warm outside so they\u2019ll bring themselves out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey might stay out for half an hour, and they might go a couple of meters just trying to temperature regulate.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they realise they\u2019re not getting that warmth that they need, they just go straight back into their chosen spot, and then they stay there until August, September.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said unfortunately in this incident the snake was run over by accident and it was probably sitting close to the side of the track.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll curl up and won\u2019t move a muscle, from a distance it could definitely be mistaken for a tree or a branch or a leaf or even a shadow,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The snake rescuer advised people going out on trails or bushwalking to take a compression bandage and know snake bite first aid in case they or someone else are bitten.<\/p>\n
\u201cEastern browns are definitely are one of the snakes that do cause the most bites, I don\u2019t believe that they\u2019re an aggressive species, I just believe that they\u2019re defensive when they\u2019re feeling threatened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been rushed to hospital when an eastern brown snake became entangled in her bike chain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37169,37159,36591,37119,37139,37143,37114,37129,37148,37174,37147,37154,37116,37162,37113,37163,37136,37158,10761,37176,37112,36889,37126,22,6466,21,37150,2066,22688,16161,17143,37128,37175,37132,37125,37124,37157,37173,39,37153,37122,379,37171,7350,1047,11091,32197,37161,37138,37152,22042,37134,4431,37115,37167,37123,37177,37144,37160,37172,37137,37170,37127,37142,37133,37135,37121,37118,37168,37146,37130,37164,37166,37131,37156,37165,37141,37120,37145,37117,37151,37149,37155,37140,7601,12205],"class_list":["post-52038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-1pm","tag-a-2m-eastern-brown-snake","tag-a-bag","tag-a-branch","tag-a-chain-and","tag-a-compression-bandage","tag-a-couple","tag-a-difficult-one","tag-a-distance","tag-a-false-sense","tag-a-leaf","tag-a-muscle","tag-a-northern-nsw-woman","tag-a-space","tag-a-tree","tag-a-two-metre-long-eastern-brown-snake","tag-a-woman","tag-about-33km","tag-accident","tag-an-aggressive-species","tag-an-eastern-brown-snake","tag-april-and-may","tag-around-she","tag-au","tag-august","tag-austrlia","tag-burringbar","tag-byron-bay","tag-bystanders","tag-case","tag-cyclist","tag-eastern-brown-snake","tag-eastern-browns","tag-even-a-shadow","tag-first-aid","tag-half-an-hour","tag-her-60s","tag-her-bike-chain","tag-hospital","tag-meters","tag-ms-mailey","tag-newswire-news","tag-northern-rivers-rail-trail","tag-people","tag-police","tag-security","tag-september","tag-snake-bite","tag-snake-relocations","tag-snake-rescuer","tag-snakes","tag-someone-else","tag-temperature","tag-that-warmth","tag-the-bike","tag-the-bike-chain","tag-the-bike-ms-mailey","tag-the-chain","tag-the-extent","tag-the-head","tag-the-highly-venomous-snake","tag-the-injured-snake","tag-the-injuries","tag-the-members","tag-the-most-bites","tag-the-northern-rivers-rail-trail","tag-the-police","tag-the-public","tag-the-scene","tag-the-side","tag-the-snake","tag-the-snake-rescuer","tag-the-snakes","tag-the-thigh","tag-the-track","tag-the-tweed-valley-hospital-the-tweed-valley-wildlife-carers","tag-the-woman","tag-the-world","tag-their-chosen-spot","tag-this-incident","tag-trails","tag-two-metre-long-snake","tag-venomous-snake-rescuer-sarah-mailey","tag-wednesday-nsw-ambulance","tag-winter","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}