We were doing a road trip through the middle of Australia . Many of the regular roads were cut off due to flood and we had to detour onto small tracks . We were about 300 km from our nearest town and it was getting dark so we decided to camp about 300 m off the road rather than drive on completely unlit unfamiliar roads at night . We lit a campfire , had a beer and settled in for the evening . No cars drove past so we felt safe completely alone . Later in the evening a car drove past , saw our campfire and slowed down . We thought nothing of it until they stopped . Cut their head lights and started reversing without lights on . We knocked out the fire and hauled our selves out of there as quickly as we could .