A man has been charged after allegedly crashing into vehicles and a barrier near a roadwork site before he was caught by an police officer following a physical struggle on the Gold Coast overnight.
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Police said the man driving a ute at high speed southbound on the Pacific Motorway at Robina near the roadworks site was passing through the roadworks site shortly after 8pm.
He then collided with two other vehicles before striking a barrier and coming to a stop, police said.
The man then fled the ute and allegedly tried to push a woman off her motorcycle that had stopped at the site.
A 47-year-old female Senior Constable from the Forensic Crash Unit who was travelling on the motorway stopped at the scene and confronted the man.
They became involved in a struggle during which the man allegedly assaulted the police officer.
Four members of the public helped the officer by holding the man down until more police crews arrived and took him into custody.
The Senior Constable was taken to the Robina Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injures.
The man was taken to hospital for a laceration to his head and his shoulder.
Multiple motorists were also treated at the scene and taken to hospital with what were believed to be minor injuries.
Police were calling on the woman on the sports motorbike that the man tried to steal, as well as any other witnesses, to come forward to help with investigations.
A 44-year-old Munruben man has been charged with one count each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and serious assault.
