The hunt is on for a man who carjacked an Uber driver at gunpoint before leading police on a short chase through inner-city Brisbane and side-swiping a pair of cars.
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About 9.20pm on Sunday, he pulled a gun on the 40-year-old driver parked on Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill and ordered him out of his white 2014 Toyota Aurion before driving off.
Police said they briefly chased the fleeing driver after he failed to stop at the corner of Herston Road and Kelvin Grove.
A police spokesman said the authorised pursuit lasted only "minutes" before it was called off due to the carjacker's dangerous driving.
Police said the car side-swiped two cars stopped at a red light on the corner of Lutwyche and Newmarket roads in Windsor, before he was last seen turning left onto Lutwyche Road.
A police spokesman said the theft appeared to be "opportunistic" rather than an attempt to target a ride-share driver.
The theft came just two weeks after two men allegedly pulled an Uber driver from his car and beat him with a spanner before stealing his car in Fortitude Valley.
