Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar has confirmed that police are investigating a woman captured in a video berating an elderly man following a fender bender involving both their cars.
“We will investigate her for road bullying.“I, myself, have just watched the footage.
“She was so fierce, hitting there and here,” Khalid (right) said of the video that has gone viral since being uploaded on Facebook yesterday.
The video, said to be taken in Kuantan, received over 20,000 shares in the social networking site, and was also uploaded on video sharing site YouTube, getting a further 69,400 views.
In the video, the woman can be seen screaming at an elderly man, calling him “stupid” and banging the bonnet of his car with a steering lock after he allegedly hit the back of her car, despite his repeated pleas that it was unintentional.
Elderly man forgives woman
Meanwhile, Kuantuan police said that the man, 67, declined to lodge a complaint against the woman despite police advise.
"When giving his statement on the incident, the man said that (the woman) grabbed his shirt collar and hit his car with a steering lock.
"The investigating officer advised him to lodge a police report on this but the man declined as he has forgiven her," the report by Kuantan police sighted by Malaysiakini reads.
The man said he was unharmed and his car was not damaged. He was issued a summon for rear-ending the woman's car.
Netizens were less forgiving, condemning the woman’s action, who also allegedly made disparaging remarks against the man’s race.
Some resorted to doxing - tracing the identity of the person they believed was the woman in the video and displaying the details online.
Meanwhile in Kuala Lumpur, Khalid said the woman should have made a police report and not threatened the elderly citizen.
“If an accident really happened, make a police report, do not take your own actions,” Khalid said.
“Her actions can be considered as those of a road bully and we will take action against her,” he added.
Khalid said that police will take action based on the video recording itself.
“Regardless of whether he makes a police report, we will investigate because we have watched the video,” he said.
Before that, he distributed Hari Raya cookies to top-ranking police officers to be distributed to about 5,000 police officers who will be on duty during the Raya festivities.
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