Car horror as man finds enormous snake curled up in his engine
The grass snake is a non-venomous snake which mostly feeds on amphibians
The man from the Austrian town of Attnang-Puchheim, who asked not to be named, discovered the snake when he looked under the bonnet.
He immediately called the local fire brigade asking them to come to his aid.
Fire brigade chief Thomas Kapeller said: "The bonnet was already open when we arrived.
"With snake pliers the reptile was caught from the vehicle."
It took the firemen half an hour to get the snake out of the engine compartment.
It turned out that the snake was a grass snake (Natrix natrix) measuring just over three feet long.