Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly reptile caught in bike wheel

An Australian woman in her sixties is recovering after a close call with one of the world's most venomous snakes. The Guardian reports she was cycling on the northern rivers rail trail near Burringbar, in the Tweed shire of northern New South Wales, when she ran over a two-metre-long eastern brown snake. The reptile became tangled in her bike chain and bit her before she could get clear. She survived what could have been a far more dangerous encounter.

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