Within the first minute of the footage showing the suv hitting the biker because the driver didn’t keep distance, you also clearly see the bloody suv tanking over 3 bikes out in front of him.
I’m also not in full belief that the driver was physically attacked etc since just like we don’t know what was the cause before the footage started, we haven’t got any footage of this so called attack on the driver. and I’m still baffled that we haven’t heard if the driver called the cops for help when he was first “blocked” in.
SUV riding over motorcycle rider
The rider who was run over, Edwin “Jay” Mieses, was portrayed Friday as an “innocent victim” who was trying to calm tempers and disperse the crowd after the fender bender.
“His sole intention was to defuse the situation,” said his family’s new high-profile lawyer, Gloria Allred.
At a Manhattan news conference, Allred said Mieses, 32, had his back to the Range Rover and was trying to get fellow bikers to walk away when he was struck “at top speed.”
These so called bikers, give all persons who ride a motorcycle, a bad name. On September 11th, nearly a 1 million real Bikers, gathered in Washington D.C., and we didn’t hear about one of them getting into a scuff with anyone else. Even the infamous Hell’s Angles, have come out and said the gang in NYC, were being reckless, disrespectful and dangerously towards other vehicles on the road.
Most bikers I know are always willing to help out in any kind of roadside emergency and they’re usually very responsible with how they handle their bikes and how the use them on the road. This is just an aberration and thankfully doesn’t happen very often.
I saw some footage on CNN that showed the first steps in this incident. Riders were all around the SUV taking up the whole roadway left and right, many were overtaking the SUV in the left lane. One rider who overtook the SUV planted himself in front of the vehicle as a kind of blocker and waved on his buddies (thinking he was helping his buddies) wrongly in my view. In doing this he slowed down even more as he looked behind at the SUV driver who I guess by now was starting to panic with bikes all around him and we assumed bumped the rider in front of him. The video stops here, then you see the second segment where bikes and the vehicle have stopped, when the SUV takes off running over a rider. First these riders were riding irresponsibly in my view without due regard to other users on the road. Riding in a pack doesn’t give you the right to take up all lanes and certainly not the right to block other road users. I have organized such rides and even doing everything by the book car operators can panic! I had a car driver (an elderly person) panic in a certain situation with his family, he had never experienced a large group of motorcyclist before, he panicked and attempted drive thru a blocked light into a group of riders in an attempt to extricate himself from the area. Luckily we got him stopped and reassured before someone was injured. I don’t believe this biker group had any intention of causing trouble but when certain ride rules are not agreed on by all partispants things are bound to go wrong! There is still an old mentality out there that bikers can be bad and you should keep away!
These “riders” are getting too much credit. They are a pack that happened to be on motorcycles. The outcome would have been the same if they were on go-carts, skateboards or pogo sticks. They’re simply a pack.
I saw some footage on CNN that showed the first steps in this incident. Riders were all around the SUV taking up the whole roadway left and right, many were overtaking the SUV in the left lane. One rider who overtook the SUV planted himself in front of the vehicle as a kind of blocker and waved on his buddies (thinking he was helping his buddies) wrongly in my view. In doing this he slowed down even more as he looked behind at the SUV driver who I guess by now was starting to panic with bikes all around him and we assumed bumped the rider in front of him. The video stops here, then you see the second segment where bikes and the vehicle have stopped, when the SUV takes off running over a rider. First these riders were riding irresponsibly in my view without due regard to other users on the road. Riding in a pack doesn’t give you the right to take up all lanes and certainly not the right to block other road users. I have organized such rides and even doing everything by the book car operators can panic! I had a car driver (an elderly person) panic in a certain situation with his family, he had never experienced a large group of motorcyclist before, he panicked and attempted drive thru a blocked light into a group of riders in an attempt to extricate himself from the area. Luckily we got him stopped and reassured before someone was injured. I don’t believe this biker group had any intention of causing trouble but when certain ride rules are not agreed on by all partispants things are bound to go wrong! There is still an old mentality out there that bikers can be bad and you should keep away!
Very bad publicity for the motorcycle industry. We all lose.
These “riders” are getting too much credit. They are a pack that happened to be on motorcycles. The outcome would have been the same if they were on go-carts, skateboards or pogo sticks. They’re simply a pack.
Please….. do not place them in the same category as bikers…….
I agree, Gary. Even to elevate them to “pack” is a lot to ask. I can’t think of a negative enough collective word.
You’re right. I was relating to it like a pack of rabid dogs…. but that’s an insult to rabid dogs.
I can’t think of a negative enough category….yet.
I’ll think of something if the NEWS keeps showing the scene over & over a couple thousand more times.
A cowardice of curs? Seems proper to me.