Mace told The Daily Telegraph he raced to the woman’s aid as the alleged attacker was yelling about her changing the radio station on him, spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines and saying “we’re all dead anyway”.
Cronulla Sharks chairman Steve Mace intervened to help the victims.
The NRL club chairman stopped his car after what he thought was just a car accident.
“I was taking my little fella innocently to his knock-out elimination final and a car accident happened in front of us,” Mace said. “I said, ’Cooper, you just wait in the car’. I wanted to make sure these people were alright. It looked like their airbags had gone off.
“I heard the guy screaming in the car and then I heard his partner screaming even louder. I tried to open the door and finally jammed it open.
“I saw him slashing her. Cutting her neck, her breast, across the stomach. Wherever he could go. I tried to get her out to stop the stabbing.”
Mace said another man came to the aid of the victim before he too was slashed by the alleged perpetrator.
“He copped a gash from [his shoulder] down to his belly button. We finally got her out.
“We laid her down and then the [attacker] has got out. He has come around and then tried to get her. We got her back in the car to try and protect her.
“There was a little torch which is all I could grab. Then it was like a stand-off which felt like an hour.
“Police got there … all he was worried about was preaching to us all. He then tried to turn around and get my fella.
“The police tasered him. Somehow he raced up the hill … that’s when I found out a police officer was stabbed … there was a lot of blood everywhere.”
The local NRL derby between the Cronulla Sharks and St George Illawarra Dragons is on at WIN Stadium in Wollongong on Sunday afternoon and this is expected to add to the traffic dramas.
Transport for NSW recommends drivers heading south from Kirrawee use the Old Princes Highway, The Grand Parade, Linden Street, River Road, Bangor Bypass, New Illawarra Road, Heathcote Road, and back to the highway.
This route is suitable for all vehicles, the agency says.
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