<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>327600</docID> <postdate>2024-08-26 08:34:41</postdate> <headline>DV link to ‘frightening’ Sydney stabbing rampage</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-327578" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240825192319648490-original-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>When police arrived the driver allegedly tried to flee before he was tasered and arrested.(Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <b>Luke Costin</b> in Sydney</span></p> <p><strong>Good Samaritans have been praised following a stabbing rampage on a major Sydney highway that left a woman fighting for life and three others including the alleged perpetrator wounded.</strong></p> <p>Two cars collided about 9am in Engadine in southern Sydney on Sunday before passers-by rushed to free the distressed woman passenger who was screaming for help.</p> <p>Police believe the driver, aged 57 or 58, began stabbing his partner while the car was weaving through traffic quite erratically before the crash.</p> <p>The man was known to them but not for domestic violence matters involving the woman, police said.</p> <p>Any other domestic violence links would be explored, they said.</p> <p>Local commander Donald Faulds credited the "amazing work" of those who intervened.</p> <p>"They've just turned up thinking it is just a normal motor vehicle accident... then they're faced with a box cutter," Superintendent Faulds told reporters.</p> <p>"Quite frightening but very, very brave as well."</p> <p>Images from the scene showed blood splattered across the inside of the front passenger's door, seat and across the white sedan's paintwork.</p> <p>Cronulla Sharks NRL chairman Steve Mace said he came face-to-face with the knife-wielding man after the crash happened right in front of him on his way to his young son's junior football game.</p> <p>He ran to the passenger's aid after hearing the 49-year-old's screams but struggled to open the door of the sedan to save her.</p> <p>"I... finally jammed it open and all of a sudden, I see him just slashing her," he said in a video posted by the Daily Telegraph.</p> <p>"(He was) just cutting her neck, her breast ... in the sides, wherever he could go."</p> <p>Mace described how another man, who was also trying to get the woman out of the car, ended up with a gash from his shoulder to his belly button before the alleged knifeman left the car and made repeated attempts to attack the group.</p> <p>"It was like a stand-off, which felt like an hour," Mace said.</p> <p>"(He was going on about) it's a big conspiracy about the jab, and we're all getting followed, and we're all dead anyway."</p> <p>There was also self-harming and an alleged attempt to flee after police arrived and tasered him, and an officer suffered a slice wound to his wrist during the arrest.</p> <p>The driver and passenger were taken to hospital in a critical condition, though the man had stabilised by 2pm.</p> <p>The injured good Samaritan was in a serious but stable condition in hospital.</p> <p>Two people in the other car were also treated for injuries from the crash.</p> <p>Mace said he escaped with just a tiny cut to his finger.</p> <p>Witnesses were urged to provide any footage surrounding the time of the incident to Crime Stoppers or local police.</p> <p>A five-kilometre stretch of the Princes Highway was closed in both directions.</p> </body>