The BMW driver stops at traffic lights after the collision, checks the damage to his car and then drives off
An 58 year old motorist was mown down in an horrific road rage incident caught on camera in Moscow after protesting to the driver of a BMW.
The Nissan Almera driver had got out of his car to complain that the BMW 116 had been chasing him after an earlier altercation on the road.
The BMW is then seen running down the man on broad daylight, before calmly driving on and stopping in front of the Niassan at a red light.
The BMW driver gets out of his car to inspect any damage to his vehicle, without a care to the man he has mown down, lying on the road, writhing in agony.
Moments later, the BMW drives away when the light turns green as other drivers and passers-by rush to help the stricken man, who was later admitted to hospital.
“I just moved along the road and beeped to this BMW to make him take left or right, so I could overtake him,” the unnamed Nissan driver told journalists from Life News website in Moscow.
“He began to drive close behind me. As we stopped at the traffic light, I went out and asked him: ‘Why are you chasing me? Did I offended you?’
“Then I went back to my car and as I was opening the door he just hit me at great speed.”
The man was speaking from hospital but his injuries are unknown.
The BMW driver was identified as Igor Kalmykov, and he is believed to have been detained by police for questioning pending expected criminal charges.
He had recently bought the BMW from a car hire company whose spokesman said: “We have assisted the police and the offender was taken for investigation.”
Many Russian drivers now use “dashcams” for their own protection in potential insurance claims.
Increasingly they are exposing a host of road rage incidents that might otherwise go unnoticed by police.
