SUCH is the predicament faced by an e-hailing Perodua Bezza driver who had the misfortune of a Mercedes Benz reversing into his car after having picked up a passenger from the Puteri Palma Apartment near IOI City Mall in Putrajaya recently.
In the incident which occurred near the guard house of the high-rise on Aug 8, the driver said the lady Merc owner who was oblivious to his horning came out of her car and had agreed to bear repair cost of the damage to his car.
“She then gave me her business card which contains her mobile number and other details,” the e-hailing driver noted in what is seemingly a social media account which was screenshot by #UpdateInfo🇲🇾🌍(@update11111) and reposted on his X account.
Miskin punya datin.. Dgn namecard ada datin.. Terpaling datin.. Tp roadtax insurans x de 😂
Kredit dc owner pic.twitter.com/DLQvSbkeSb
— #UpdateInfo🇲🇾🌍 (@update11111) August 14, 2024
“I proceeded to the car workshop and when the repairman called her up to tell her the repair price, she had the notoriety to claim that she didn’t knock my car but in fact I was the one who hit hers.”
Still in a daze, the e-haling driver said he went to lodge a police report whereby he showed the police “a string of unanswered text messages”.
At the same time, he found out that the lady Merc owner “has not been paying her road tax and car insurance for months despite driving a luxurious car”.
At the end of the day, the unfortunate e-bailing driver said he had to bear the repair cost of his car all by himself while wondering if he, too, could behave like the unscrupulous Datin car owner by not paying her car’s road tax/insurance, pretend to be willing to pay for the damage but never pick up the phone call”.
Responding to the plight of the e-hailing driver a commenter lamented how the law “can at times be deceitful” especially when the other party does not have proper road tax/insurance coverage.
After all, as someone suggested, both the road tax and insurance “doesn’t even cost RM1,500”.
This led to another netizen proposing that those who get caught for driving without valid road tax/car insurance “should have their driving license suspended for two years, jailed for one year and fined RM10,000 for their offence”.
Another who is more legally-versed advised the -hailing driver to file a civil suit regardless of the Merc owner being a Datin or otherwise.
Few commenters also corrected the e-hailing driver’s misperception that the Mercedes model involved in the incident is expensive for the 2010 C200 model “is much cheaper than Axia”.
To sum up, one netizen revealed that the Datin owner can be easily traced online based on her company’s details which is “a MLM (multi-level marketing) firm in the halal food and travel industry”. – Aug 16, 2024
