KUALA LUMPUR: A couple endured a night of terror as their car was chased by a gang of Mat Rempit, who also smashed their window during a high-speed pursuit along the Damansara-Puchong Highway (LDP) early Monday morning.
The woman, identified only as San San, relayed the couple's ordeal via a Facebook posting last night, which quickly went viral.
San San's post was shared around 15,000 times in under four hours.
She said the incident occurred around 2.15am when she and her boyfriend had stopped their Perodua Myvi at an open air car park near the Kelana Jaya lake to enter some coordinates into their Waze app.
A group of bikers suddenly appeared and surrounded their vehicle. One of them tapped on the passenger window and told the couple to get out of the car.
"We felt that something was definitely wrong, so we decided to remain in the car," she said, adding that there were eight men on four motorcycles.
San San's boyfriend then reversed the car in a bid to get away from the bikers. However, the bikers turned even more aggressive and began hitting the car.
Desperate to escape, her boyfriend then floored the accelerator and crashed into one of the motorcycles. This enraged the bikers even more and they gave chase.
A high speed chase soon began, with the bikers pursuing the Myvi along the LDP, headed towards Kepong.
"Throughout the chase, the men kept yelling at us and ordered us to stop. One threw rocks at our car.
"One of the men flung a sparkplug, which smashed the passenger window," she said.
Making matters worse, the couple's Myvi had sustained a flat tyre after ramming into one of the motorcycles earlier. The constant speed eventually left the car with one wheel running on its rim.
San San said she called the police, who urged her to make their way to the nearest police station. However, the couple decided to speed ahead after deducing that they would not be able to make many more precise turns due to the condition of the car.
She said the gang of bikers eventually dropped off as the car approached the Kepong toll plaza.
"We were so afraid that they would come after us but they were nowhere to be found. We eventually pulled up by the side of the road.
"The police came by after about 10 minutes. They decided that we were alright and told us to call a tow truck."
She said they were unable to go to a police station to lodge a report that night, given the car's condition. They only lodged a report the next day at the Bandar Sunway police station.
The New Straits Times is obtaining police's comments on the case.