The person believed to be accountable pounced on the household whereas the daddy was filling up his Nissan Pathfinder at a Pacific Petroleum petrol station in Beenleigh, south of Brisbane.
It’s understood the person pushed the mom out the passenger door and jumped into the motive force’s seat.
The couple fell to the bottom when the person sped off, and CCTV footage confirmed the couple screaming.
The daddy mentioned of the mom: “She was very distraught.”
“She was dropping her braveness a bit of. I used to be extra in shock than anything.”
“I did not know the place to go from right here.”
The dad and mom, who can’t be recognized for authorized causes, spent quarter-hour fearing the worst for his or her two-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter.
The daddy mentioned that he tried to leap into the automobile in an try to cease the person.
He added: “On account of the drive of the automobile taking off, we fell to the bottom.”
The couple’s youngsters have been unhurt and have been dropped off at a close-by Woolworths shortly after the automobile took off.
“All he might inform me was, you realize, there was a nasty man, and the unhealthy man was indignant,” the daddy mentioned.
The person accountable was seen driving erratically minutes later.
Police allege he attacked a girl and tried to steal her Mazda on the 7-Eleven throughout the highway moments earlier.
She sustained some accidents through the alleged assault.
The police are trying to find the person and investigating the incident.