A driver filming footage for Google's Street View maps in Indonesia slammed into two vehicles after trying to escape responsibility for an earlier crash, police have said.

The Indonesian man had been driving a Subaru hatchback in the Bogor district on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, with 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 told AFP.

The minivan driver got in his vehicle, Gunawan said, and gave chase for around two miles 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," he said.

The man, who has not been named, was detained after the third crash and taken in for questioning

Wouldn't the Google car have recorded the incident? So what was the point of trying to escape?

Presumably, and perhaps Google will now have some very detailed maps for Indonesian car impounds