Residents of an island in southern Indonesia successfully rescued a 10-metre-long python after it got run over by a car.

Video filmed on July 14, 2017, shows concerned locals on the Axis 10 road to Palopo in the village of Basokan, north Toraja, South Sulawesi, desperately trying to pull the snake from under a car, which according to witnesses had going at high speed and runover the python.

Men can be seen on their hands and knees looking under the car and poking at the snake with branches from a tree.

The driver was a resident of Basokan, according to the filmer.

The incident caused traffic delays, according to the filmer.

Residents felt sorry for the snake and came up with a plan to set it free, the filmer said.

He added that it was handed over to snake conservationists after it was successfully freed.

a python with a long snake that stepped on a car on the road trans sulawesi precisely Toraja road to the city of Palopo evacuated by residents.

The event started from one of the car drivers passing by at high speed and accidentally stepped on the body of a python, a resident in the village of basokan, subdistrict nanggala, North Toraja, the excitement instantaneous and causing the flow of transportation is consequently disrupted.

residents who feel sorry for the python piton to evacuate and help the pythons.

It is known that the length of the python reaches about ten meters, with such a large body.