<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A teenager with a gold machete has been arrested following a crash and bizarre encounter on a street in Brisbane's south-east.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A smashed-up Mercedes came to a stop in Alexandra Hills before the young driver emerged, bloodied and in a daze.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Residents came to help, asking the teenager if he was OK as he ran back to his car and tossing out what appeared to be a gold-plated machete about 30 centimetres long.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/gold-coast-drowning-wave-break-island-woman/bdf9efa6-ed4d-43c6-8526-ad7e3c8c8a41" rel="" target="_blank" title="Scuba diver drowns at Gold Coast swimming spot"><strong><span>Scuba diver drowns at Gold Coast swimming spot</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When an onlooker tried to pick up the weapon, the teenager went back for it and threw it down a drain.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police were already moving in and the teen was eventually arrested on the road.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officers were forced to enter the stormwater drain to retrieve the gold knife.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/alexandria-hills-crash-teenager-arrested-after-crashing-mercedes-tossing-gold-plated-machete/7870e53d-bc30-4068-a37f-631e8f201b02" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Oh, look at that - gold plated and all," one onlooker could be heard remarking.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Minutes before the driver stopped his car, he allegedly smashed into Byrson Martin's vehicle outside his home.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/adelaide-bus-brawl-seventeen-arrested/3c094bc4-7059-478a-9b27-0a5616702715"><strong><span>Seventeen including teen, 13, arrested after mass brawl on Adelaide bus</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Martin said he tried to get the teenager's details but said he seemed agitated.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I heard a massive bang ... ran out and noticed how bad crash was, he was trying to flee the scene straight away," Martin said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I was trying to get his information, he wouldn't really give it to me.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He was bleeding and just in a hurry to leave and kept wanting to go to Wellington Point, not sure why."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The driver was taken into police custody as officers consider charges.</span></div></div>