Witnesses to a bizarre car crash in Hervey Bay yesterday said it was like "time stood still" as two young men scrambled to safety from their precariously balanced - and leaking - car.

Paul Hilton and Nicholas Finnis were turning off Boat Harbour Dr into Hunter St at midday when Mr Hilton lost control, running up the curb and onto a power pole support wire.

A driver flees a car precariously perched on a power pole support wire in Hervey Bay. Credit:Karleila Thomsen/Fraser Coast Chronicle

As nearby workers rushed to help the boys, the car started spitting out liquid and sparks.

"We thought it was going to catch fire ... we screamed at them to get out, quick," Jodie Beams from the Sustainability Shack said.

Read the full story in the Fraser Coast Chronicle.