In the last year Perth has seen snakes in residential gardens, on a (coastal) plane and on a train and one unlucky man even found a venomous specimen in his shoe.

However, they've got nothing on a South Australian woman's experience on Tuesday which would be an ophidiophobe's worst nightmare. In fact, if you do have a fear of snakes you might want to stop reading right about now.

Sally was driving home from Adelaide to Mundoo Island Station when a red-bellied black snake popped up in front of her from under the bonnet of her car while she was going at 100km/h.

"It scared the living daylights out of me," she said.