A woman has been charged over a terrifying axe attack at a service station in Sydney's inner west that injured two people.
The horrific alleged rampage left a 43-year-old woman with a fractured skull and a man seriously injured.
Sharon Hacker was buying milk on Stanmore Road in Enmore at around 2.25am on Saturday when she crossed paths with a young woman brandishing an axe.
"She just came with full force and swung and struck the man across the face," Ms Hacker told Network Ten.
"Then (she) turned immediately around to me and again, with both hands, came through and struck me with the axe in the back of the head.
"And then as I was falling forward, (she) came in again and came down and struck me again."
Ms Hacker was left with a fractured skull in the random attack, while a 32-year-old man suffered more serious head injuries.
"His face was completely opened up and bleeding profusely," Ms Hacker said.
"I'm just very lucky that I have very thick dreadlocks."
Bystander Nathan Wood described chasing a woman down the street before losing her as he called police.
"But then she went after the person who was following behind me and swung her axe at him," he said.
"Dude in a big coat, she swung and she missed, caught his coat and tore a big old hole through it."
Police said that a short time after the attack a woman, believed to be aged in her 20s, was found by officers a short distance from the service station and arrested.
She allegedly had an axe in her possession, which was seized.
The woman was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for assessment under police guard.
She was later charged with wounding a person intending to cause grievous bodily harm.
The woman was refused bail to front Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday.
