Woman almost carjacked while stopping for dummy in road,...

A woman was almost carjacked as she stopped for a dummy she mistook for a child on a North Carolina road, deputies say.

According to WXII, the woman saw a figure in the middle of the road about 1:30 a.m. Sunday as she was driving in Carteret County, so she slowed down. That's when two men in hoodies grabbed the handles of her car doors, The Associated Press reported.

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The woman quickly drove away and called authorities, who found a dummy dressed in a red shirt at the scene, deputies said. That dummy has been destroyed, the AP reported.

Authorities are still looking for the perpetrators.