Bikers attack SUV driver

[Boom_70]

Must ... resist ... temptation ...

Ah the hell with it.

If the driver of the SUV had simply let law enforcement do its job, none of this would have happened. But no, he had to go all rogue on everyone ... honestly, the nerve of some people.

Tend to agree with that. In the end it's a case of road rage. Guy in SUV pissed off at bikers slowing him down says something or perhaps gives them Bronx salute. Bikers decide to accept challenge and get their bikes in front of his truck. Guy panics, takes off and hits biker. The insurance issue will be interesting. In effect he caused the accident even if biker stopped short. As a driver you are responsible for what's in front of you.

I have to wonder where the police were and why no one called them. That's a well traveled highway and chase seemed to go on for a while. The entire stretch has camera's. Did no one see this going on.

Landrover man made an amateur mistake by getting off at 178st st. He should have headed across bridge to NJ.

The chase reminded me of the motorcycle chase in Coogans Bluff which ironically is right in that area.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Must ... resist ... temptation ...

Ah the hell with it.

If the driver of the SUV had simply let law enforcement do its job, none of this would have happened. But no, he had to go all rogue on everyone ... honestly, the nerve of some people.

Tend to agree with that. In the end it's a case of road rage. Guy in SUV pissed off at bikers slowing him down says something or perhaps gives them Bronx salute. Bikers decide to accept challenge and get their bikes in front of his truck. Guy panics, takes off and hits biker. The insurance issue will be interesting. In effect he caused the accident even if biker stopped short. As a driver you are responsible for what's in front of you.

I have to wonder where the police were and why no one called them. That's a well traveled highway and chase seemed to go on for a while. The entire stretch has camera's. Did no one see this going on.

Landrover man made an amateur mistake by getting off at 178st st. He should have headed across bridge to NJ.

The chase reminded me of the motorcycle chase in Coogans Bluff which ironically is right in that area.

I don't know that he intended to run over anybody or drive into the back of the bike in front of him. It's pretty obvious from the video if he just stayed there it would not have ended well for him and his family.
Seems to me he was just trying to get out there, away from the angry mob, and a biker or two just happened to be in the way.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I wondered that too - does SUV man not have a cell phone? Why not keep driving, call the cops and tell them what's happening? I feel like it started with road rage and ended with a gang beating.

 

[Boom_70]

Must ... resist ... temptation ...

Ah the hell with it.

If the driver of the SUV had simply let law enforcement do its job, none of this would have happened. But no, he had to go all rogue on everyone ... honestly, the nerve of some people.

Tend to agree with that. In the end it's a case of road rage. Guy in SUV pissed off at bikers slowing him down says something or perhaps gives them Bronx salute. Bikers decide to accept challenge and get their bikes in front of his truck. Guy panics, takes off and hits biker. The insurance issue will be interesting. In effect he caused the accident even if biker stopped short. As a driver you are responsible for what's in front of you.

I have to wonder where the police were and why no one called them. That's a well traveled highway and chase seemed to go on for a while. The entire stretch has camera's. Did no one see this going on.

Landrover man made an amateur mistake by getting off at 178st st. He should have headed across bridge to NJ.

The chase reminded me of the motorcycle chase in Coogans Bluff which ironically is right in that area.

I don't know that he intended to run over anybody or drive into the back of the bike in front of him. It's pretty obvious from the video if he just stayed there it would not have ended well for him and his family.
Seems to me he was just trying to get out there, away from the angry mob, and a biker or two just happened to be in the way.

Again it will be an interesting insurance case. Insurance companies tend to
deal in black and white and not emotion. Maybe the guy on bike who stopped
in front of SUV was trying to help. Doubt it but this will be interesting.

 

[Boom_70]

I wondered that too - does SUV man not have a cell phone? Why not keep driving, call the cops and tell them what's happening? I feel like it started with road rage and ended with a gang beating.

The motor cycle drivers could contend that they were trying to stop a hit and run
driver and make a citizens arrest. Would not surprise me that we learn that there
were off duty cops among the riders.

 

[User 11148]

I think I need to get more practiced at using the blue font ...

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I think I need to get more practiced at using the blue font ...

Try throwing in some Latin next time.

 

[Gator]

Sorry, I'm Team SUV Driver. If someone was threatening the well-being of my wife and my child inside the car, I would have done the same thing. Biker be damned. I drove slowly and cautiously, and the bikers were driving like assholes. Sorry how it all worked out, but I have a tough time feeling sympathy for the paralyzed biker after what transpired.

 

[armageddon]

I wondered that too - does SUV man not have a cell phone? Why not keep driving, call the cops and tell them what's happening? I feel like it started with road rage and ended with a gang beating.

He did have a phone. He did call 911. His was one of dozens of calls because of the bikers' asshattery.

This wasn't road rage. This was bullying on bikes.

You can find video from an earlier incident (earlier that day) involving the bikers and a driver of a Prius. This group has a history of trying to pull this crap.

I agree with Starman, I'd pin a medal on the guy's chest if he had run down every last one of them.

 

[Boom_70]

Sorry, I'm Team SUV Driver. If someone was threatening the well-being of my wife and my child inside the car, I would have done the same thing. Biker be damned. I drove slowly and cautiously, and the bikers were driving like assholes. Sorry how it all worked out, but I have a tough time feeling sympathy for the paralyzed biker after what transpired.

I don't have sympathy either for the biker. Just interested in how the insurance
aspects will play out.

Does NY have Stand your ground law on the books?

 

[MisterCreosote]

Must ... resist ... temptation ...

Ah the hell with it.

If the driver of the SUV had simply let law enforcement do its job, none of this would have happened. But no, he had to go all rogue on everyone ... honestly, the nerve of some people.

That's OK. I'm sure the biker who got run down deserved it, too.

I'll know for sure once I unearth the list of convenience stores he visited in the previous 24 hours, and what he bought there.

 

[Chef2]

If that's me in the Rover, the fine young gentleman that decided to get off his motor scooter and bash in my window will quickly find himself playing gin in the 8th circle of hell with Hitler, Hussein and Stalin.

 

[Moderator1]

who

 

[User 11148]

who

+1,000

 

[User 11148]

I think I need to get more practiced at using the blue font ...

Try throwing in some Latin next time.

Reductio ad fontius caeruleum

 

[poindexter]

You guys may have seen from this summer this Russian Dash cam, a motorcycle guy whose break check in front of a driver did not go well.

http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/russian-bikers-brake-check-does-not-go-planned

you can ff to around the 50 second mark.

 

[Bubbler]

I wonder if he was listening to West Coast Classics or Rebel Radio when the driver ran over the biker?

I nearly had this happen to me. Pulled into a McDonald's in Joliet, Ill. and a biker felt I cut him off when I did it. He confronted me in the drive-thru line, screaming obscenities with my very scared then-5-year-old daughter in the backseat. He wanted to fight. The only way I got him to drive away was to tell the McDonald's drive-thru person to call the cops. The minute I did that he motored off. I never talked to the cops.

I was lucky I was in somewhat of a public place. Had I not been, it could have ended differently.

Moral of the story? **** bikers.

 

[Boom_70]

How does this story fit the narrative. Not sure how to play it.

 

[Boom_70]

I wonder if he was listening to West Coast Classics or Rebel Radio when the driver ran over the biker?

I nearly had this happen to me. Pulled into a McDonald's in Joliet, Ill. and a biker felt I cut him off when I did it. He confronted me in the drive-thru line, screaming obscenities with my very scared then-5-year-old daughter in the backseat. He wanted to fight. The only way I got him to drive away was to tell the McDonald's drive-thru person to call the cops. The minute I did that he motored off. I never talked to the cops.

I was lucky I was in somewhat of a public place. Had I not been, it could have ended differently.

Moral of the story? **** bikers.

Funny - many say "**** Range Rover drivers" The vehicle of choice
of the 1%ers.

If the driver was in a F - 150 with rebel flag in window he probably
would have made it out of there just fine.

 

[DanOregon]

It reminded me of The Birds.