An Indonesian Google Street View driver is being questioned after allegedly crashing into two vehicles after trying to flee responsibility for an earlier crash. If you want to know why the driver hit and ran, watch this:

The Indonesian man had been driving a Subaru hatchback in Bogor district on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday with internet giant Google’s logo and a camera poking from the roof, when he hit a public minivan.

“He did accompany the minivan driver to the garage, but he said he was scared the repair fee would be high, so he got in his damaged car and fled,” Bogor district police operations chief Hendra Gunawan said on Saturday.

The minivan driver got in his vehicle, Mr Gunawan said, and gave chase for around three kilometres, before the Google car smashed into a second minivan.

“He tried to flee again, but soon crashed into a parked truck before he gave up,” Mr Gunawan said.

The man, whom police declined to name, was detained after the third crash and taken in for questioning.

“He has been released and all the payments for the vehicles have been sorted out. The damage to the first one would probably have cost 200,000 rupiah ($19) to repair,” he said.

Google could not be contacted for comment.

Google has previously run in to trouble with Street View, which allows users to zoom in on real-life everyday images recorded with the company’s cameras that take 360-degree footage.

Images of an Australian couple havingsex on the bonnet of a car on a highway appeared on Street View in April, and in March, Google struck a deal with US authorities to pay a $US7 million ($7.6 million) fine for collecting people’s personal data for Street View without authorisation.