The woman whose legs were crushed by a ute in a horrific road rage incident after an argument with a male driver has a past as an Invasion Day protestor and friends from New Zealand’s Mongrel Mob bikie gang.

Video has emerged of the incident near Coolum Beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in which Tia-Loketi Harvey was left with broken legs.

In an incident that occurred outside a 7-Eleven at 5.30pm on December 22, Ms Harvey claimed the driver grabbed her by the shoulders, flung her to the ground and then drove over her calves.

The 26-year-old is now in a wheelchair, having been discharged from hospital to live at her mother’s house. It is uncertain if she can participate in next week’s January 26 protest march.

Last year Ms Harvey proudly demonstrated among tens of thousands of people in Brisbane, dressed in an Aboriginal flag t-shirt, and a feathered cloak.

She was chained to fellow protester Victoria Van Schie, who carried a sign saying ‘Australia … racist since 1788’.

Ms Harvey has also displayed on her Facebook page a photo of her with nine other people, most of whom were wearing Mongrel Mob colours.

Tia-Loketi Harvey (left) with fellow protester Victoria Van Schie at an Invasion Day protest last year in Brisbane, also known as Meanjin

Tia- Loketi Harvey (above) inhospital with broken legs after being run over in a horrific road rage accident three days before Christmas

The Mongrel Mob is NZ’s largest motorcycle gang, and in the photo Ms Harvey is wearing one of the club T-shirts.

Beside the photo is written a post, saying ‘Love us Mongrel Mob Wahine Toa’, the last two words meaning ‘warrior woman’ in Maori.

In Australia, Ms Harvey has been listed multiple times to appear in Pine Rivers and Brisbane Magistrates Courts for traffic matters, bail and probations hearings, most recently in last November.

Ms Harvey said the road rage incident that left her injured had begun as she was driving her blue Subaru carrying her nine-year-old son and his cousin, 15,.

She slowed down to let another car merge into her lane but a ute pulled in quickly behind her and began flashing her lights at her, and gesturing for her to get out of the car. 

Ms Harvey, pictured third right at the back, with others dressed in the colours of the Mongrel Mob, NZ’s largest bikie gang, alongside a post ion which she wrote ‘Love us Mongrel Mob’

Tia-Loketi had both of her legs crushed by the ute in the incident on December 22

She pulled over and got out of her car, then ‘he’s walked straight up to me, grabbed me by my two shoulders,’ Ms Harvey told the Courier Mail.

After she threw air fresheners from her car at the ute, the male driver returned to his car and drove off, running over Ms Harvey’s calves in the process.

‘I’ve just seen the light come towards me, and all of a sudden I was up against my door, my back was arching, the lights were coming at me and all I heard was the crunches of bones breaking,’ she said.

Ms Harvey claimed the man got out of his car for a second time and continued to abuse her while ‘blood was squirting’ out of her legs.

She was rushed to hospital and had surgery the following day. Ms Harvey remained under care until January 8 when she was discharged.