UPDATE on Mar. 20 at 11:50am: This article has been updated to include new information from one of the parties involved in the altercation.

A Mercedes-Benz driver and a GrabFood rider were caught on video having a heated dispute in a car park.

This happened after the latter confronted the driver for parking her car in a motorcycle lot.

What ensued was an altercation involving lots of angry horning and yelling in the early hours of the morning.

The episode was filmed by a witness and uploaded onto the Facebook group "Singapore Incidents" on Mar. 18, 2024, but was later removed.

Wrongful parking

The incident took place at a car park in the heartlands. It involved the Mercedes-Benz driver, her husband, and a GrabFood rider.

The husband claimed in a police report, which was seen by Mothership, that the argument arose because his wife had unknowingly parked at the motorcycle lot while waiting for him to pick up medication from a clinic.

"A Grab motorist came and demanded my wife to leave the car lot as he wanted to park there," he said.

Motorcyclist allegedly blocks path

From the husband's account, the GrabFood rider deliberately blocked the car's path so that the couple couldn't leave.

The husband claimed that when he returned, he apologised to the motorcyclist and requested him to "move a bit" so the car could leave.

He added that the rider started to "quarrel [with] and scold" them when he tried to get the rider to move.

According to the husband's police statement, the rider then "pushed his motorbike to bang into [their] car".

"He also mentioned that if we have to move out, it will be over his dead body," he said in his statement.

The video showed the driver remaining in the vehicle. She pressed on the horn, filling the area with its piercing sound.

According to the original video, the driver pressed the car horn incessantly "without any concern for the people living in the surrounding".

After the man turned back to say something to her, the insistent horning ceased.

"My wife felt threatened and asked him to move away, in order to get attention from the surrounding and self-protection, she used the car horn," the man said in his statement.

Lots of shouting, gesturing

The female driver then climbed out of the vehicle and began shouting at the rider.

Most of what the woman said was unintelligible, but it included her repeatedly telling the rider to "move away" in Mandarin.

At one point, she reached into the car to horn at the rider a couple more times in between her bouts of yelling.

This appeared to irritate the motorcyclist further, and his gestures became more heated.

According to the husband, the rider refused to move his bike despite repeated requests for him to do so. This prompted the couple to call the police for help.

After arriving and taking down their particulars, the officers then asked the rider to move his bike and let the car out.

Motorcycle lots are for motorcycles

According to the Housing and Development Board (HDB), it is an offence to park in a parking spot not meant for your type of vehicle.

Offenders driving cars could be fined S$70.

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Top images via SgHomeGuy and Singapore Incidents