SEREMBAN — A post by a young man has gone viral on Malaysian social media for what was perceived to be a lack of remorse following his group's accident on a highway with a family of three.

The accident happened at about 8.30pm last Friday (April 12) and was captured by various in-car cameras, which showed the alleged victim's yellow Myvi car being hit by a white Honda Civic as it sped down the Kuala Lumpur–Seremban Expressway chasing after a black car.

This apparently caused the Myvi to spin out of control into oncoming traffic.

At 4am on April 13, the alleged victim "JueJue Yana" shared her own footage of the incident on Facebook and asked for help with insurance claims.

She, her husband Fakhirul and her six-month-old baby Qalish had been on the move from the town of Jitra in northern Kedah, Malaysia since 9am last Friday before the incident. 

They were 40 minutes from their destination of Malacca when they were supposedly hit by the Honda Civic's driver.

"Due to other people's negligence, we became victims," she wrote in her post. "Our car turned around... Only Allah knows the feelings (we had) at that time."

She also said that it was fortunate that her baby did not suffer serious injuries because the impact of the collision at the right rear wheel of her car missed the infant car seat. 

Regarding a photo of the mother and child seated on a temporary chair at the side of the highway, she added: "Poor Qalish was so surprised that he didn't cry loudly... He just turned six months old today."

As of Monday afternoon, the woman's post had received 4,500 reactions, 2,000 comments and 5,700 shares on Facebook, with most online users expressing relief that the family was safe.

Many people also criticised the person in the Honda Civic for his reckless driving and apparent nonchalance regarding the accident, calling for his driving licence to be suspended or even revoked.

In one of the videos, the alleged victim is heard confronting the young man, who is seen dressed in a grey pullover.

"I'm safe," she tells him in the video. "But what if I'm not safe?"

She then demands compensation for the damage caused to her Myvi. However, the youth does not respond, even appearing to give her a mutinous expression when she turns the camera on him.

One Facebook user noted that facial expression and said: "His face at the last minute... I feel like slapping him in the face."

Another agreed: "Can (the driver) just say, 'You're okay, right?'"

Online users also quickly made the link between the post by "JueJue Yana" and a separate series of posts on Instagram and short-form video platform Douyin, the Chinese counterpart to TikTok, which showed a damaged white Honda Civic with the same car plate number.

Screenshots of these "frivolous" posts quickly made their rounds on social media, further provoking the ire of online users.

For instance, one selfie photo posted by user "soh0312" on Douyin showed him and two other young men making peace signs as they posed at a road shoulder with the damaged vehicle.

They appeared to be the same three young men from one of the photos by "JueJue Yana", which showed them squatting on the ground to examine the damage to the Honda Civic. On Douyin, the user's profile states that he is 18 years old.

Referring to a popular Douyin trend, the caption read: "Don't panic when something happens, just post a Douyin to relieve (your) stress."

The selfie, which was posted close to 11pm last Friday — less than three hours after the collision occurred — sparked even greater outrage among Malaysian online users, who questioned his indifference over putting three lives in harm's way.

Another viral screenshot showed an Instagram Story posted by the same teenager under the user name "ykkk_0312" in response to a question asked by one of his followers: "What were (your) feelings at the time?"

Alongside a photo of the damaged Honda Civic, he wrote: "Excited."

One top comment on a Facebook repost by meme page "The popular hahameme2.0" read in Chinese: "No one wants an accident to happen, but this kind of attitude after the accident is very frivolous. It's a joke to you guys, but that family was scared to death."

Agreeing, another said: "He almost killed someone and still had the mood to take photos. Crazy!"

One Facebook comment read in Malay: "Suspend his licence for life... I am furious with this heartless human being."

Instagram users also began tagging the user in various posts about the incident, calling him "shameless" and "inhumane".

However, while these screenshots were initially shared with the assumption that this Douyin user was the driver of the Honda Civic, he later put out a statement on Instagram claiming that he and the other two men in the viral wefie were merely the passengers.

The statement, a screenshot of a note in the iPhone Notes app, was shared as a collaborative post on Instagram by four users — presumably the four men present in the white Honda Civic during the time of the accident.

It reads in both Chinese and Malay: "On the way back to Johor Bahru from Kuala Lumpur, (the driver) chased a car (Tokyo Estima).

"The three of us (passengers) told him not to chase and to drive slowly. We told him that (but) he still didn't listen.

"We took the photo and posted it online because we felt lucky that something like this happened to us. There is no one in this photo (who was) driving the car."

In a separate Instagram Story, user "szetien_04" who was tagged in the joint statement also wrote: "Everyone, it was not my friend driving the car. Don't cyberbully him."

As of Monday afternoon, all of the passengers' original posts on Douyin and Instagram appeared to have been deleted.

It is unclear if the accident was reported to the police in Malaysia.