KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — Police are investigating a woman allegedly involved in a road rage incident captured on video, although the elderly man at the receiving end is refusing to lodge a report over the episode.

Following the social media storm that erupted after the clip was uploaded to YouTube, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar today confirmed that his men are now looking into the matter.

“We will investigate her for road bullying... She was so fierce, hitting there and here,” he was quoted as saying by news portal Malaysiakini.

But in an earlier development, the elderly man seen coming in for the woman’s abuses is reportedly declining to file a complaint over the attack, preferring instead to let the incident pass.

According to Kuantan police chief ACP Abd Aziz Salleh, the 60-year-old has chosen to pardon the woman for the episode in which he was also racially abused.

“The woman has already lodged a police report on that accident but the man did not want to lodge a police report because (he) did not want to prolong the matter and he has also forgiven the woman’s actions,” he was quoted as saying by Astro Awani.

In the 2.33-minute clip, the Malay woman is shown smashing away at the elderly man’s car following a fender bender and demanding RM2,000 for the accident.

Frustrated that the man would not pay her on the spot, she then abused him racially.

“You think you are Chinese, you are better than us! You are very stupid!” she shouts, before accusing him of intentionally hitting her car.

The woman later shifts her Peugeot forward to examine the damage, before getting in her car and explaining to passers-by that her response was because “Dia Cina (He is Chinese)”.

It is unclear what the outcome was, as the video ends shortly after.

Twitter users have since reacted with abhorrence to the woman’s behaviour, calling her aggressive and racist response disgraceful, disgusting, shameful, and stupid, among others.

Internet users later used her vehicle registration number, which was visible in the video, to trace the woman’s identity before posting the information online, prompting more targeted abuse against her.