Probably a popcorn thread but oh well....

I've watched the entire video and I am 100% on the drivers side.... I think that the key moment in this video is when a rider got off his bike and started walking towards the car. You would panic in that situation, especially being intimidated and surrounded by a gang of bikers with no way out. I'm pretty sure the first biker started it all off by being silly and cutting in front of the Range Rover and for some reason braking?

Once the Range Rover starts driving off trying to escape, just imagine the fear going through his body trying to figure out what to do and how to escape the gang....


ABC News link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video-shows...ry?id=20419705


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=319_1380522846
Just watched it again, it's ******* shocking, and I bet you that all the motorbiker's think that the driver was in the wrong here.

 

That is a horrible situation to be in.

Despite it being an RR Sport, I still feel for the driver - anyone know what happened in the end?!

 

Wife and kid in the car too apparently. Driver was treated in hospital for facial lacerations.

Not a biker fan to start with, so doesn't help my prejudice much!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...reet-ride.html

 

Well, from what I read of that. Biker being a Pr1ck and slowing down in front of the RR.

Makes him stop. Intimidation, made worse by laddo getting off bike to walk towards him. I'd have floored it too.

Towards the end, you'd think he'd have had his door locked. But if that biker had dragged him out, I fear he'd have been beaten to death.

He should have called the Police and kept driving on the Highway till they arrived.

Maybe should have test braked them too. I'd rather be sat in the RR than on one of those Bikes.

 

Shocking.
In the same situation I would have at least locked the doors, something which he appears not to have done early on in the footage

Nik

 

Police have banned that annual rally because of it.

 

 

Having just returned from NYC, the driver was unlucky not to have seen a police car or at least an officer on the street. Very scary for the driver.

 

Lets see... Range in wrong lane, dreaming in middle lane...gets surrounded because of this and then drives way to close to all of them... that is the video I see.

Then he rams that bike at 28 seconds when the bike does not brake hard but mearly maintain the speed of the bike infront, which means they all stop... what did he think they would do.. Then he piledrives over 5 or 6 bike = your fu@ked chap

PS I am not a biker...not engined anyway

Pays not to mess with them bikers... especially chaptered ones...they are lawless

IMO

 

In America any lane is fair game unlike over here so not a problem to sit in the middle.

 

It's not really clear if the driver had justification to take off like that at 50 seconds. I heard him beeping his horn loads, probably panicked when the bikers took offense.

 

Self defence laws don't let you use lethal force just cos you feel 'intimidated'.

 

Only a problem when you take the range sky bound over a harley!

 

It seems that something is already happening at the start as one biker seems to be saying something through the window. Then the idiot biker stops in front of him and causes the accident. OK, fair enough, exchange details - biker should foot the bill.
Nothing warrants running over several other people though?
If it was an act of desperation out of fear, why not reverse?.

You'd have to be pretty brain dead to start rowing with 100 bikers, especially with your wife and kid in the car. And if you watch again I think the Range Rover could have stopped, the bike didn't slow that much.

 

Must be a terrible experience chased by all those gay men, where's Clyde when you need him?

 

I'm a biker and it's totally the bikers fault , why was the guy in front pi**ing about to start with ,
The guy in the car would have been bricking it anyway ,with bikes here there and fecking everywhere
If they are riding just ride and stop pi**ing about trying to intimidate a car driver
The road was obviously clear ahead so why all bunch round a car ?

 

The second time the RR comes to a stop (very end of the vid) a biker tries his door but then puts his windows through using his crash helmet - that's how he gets to the driver, who happens to be blocked in by other traffic


Scott.

 

It certainly looks to me that something was clearly happening or had happened before this clip, Why the biker is mucking about in front, far too close to the RR sport is anyones guess but them getting hit was bound to happen.
Am I surprised that the driver put his foot down to get him and his family out of a potentially V bad situation. A 3 ton 4x4 is going to go easily push / go over a bike, it could have been a whole lot worse.
I would have probably have done similar in the same circumstances, and hit reverse when came to standing traffic.

Richard

 

Like I say I would have locked the doors from the off as 5 minutes in a biker opens his door so he could have taken a pasting then if he hadn't planted the throttle.

Nik

 

I read on the US side of the Daily Mail that they dragged him out of his car when it came to a stop and beat him up in front of his wife and son.

 

I'm a biker and I'd say more than just what's shown has happened, something must have started it. If your in that situation with your family in the car what would you do? Tyre getting slashed, intimidated by a gang of 30 odd people, you get yourself out of the situation and try and keep everyone safe. If it is down to the initial knock then the bloke on that bike was a ***** for doing that

 

100% Agree

Bollocks, partly backed up by:

Yep, undertaking / overtaking is allowed both sides as I understand it in North America

 

I think you need to watch the beginning again, maybe properly this time

The guy on the silver bike was being deliberately intimidating, riding close to the drivers door of the Range Rover and staring inside. Then he pulled in front of the car and deliberately braked suddenly, nothing in front of him required him to to brake like that.

I am a biker, and it dismays me because I will get judged by the actions of ****** like those

 

Scary stuff ..

 

Bikers fault regardless of what happened before, if there was some sort of "incident" that caused the silver biker to start intimidating the RR driver, then the bikers should have taken his reg and called the police, not intimidating him on mass by surrounding him, as it was only going to do one thing, which is accelerate the situation.

I think most people in a similar situation would crap themselves, even if it were 3 bikers let alone 300 (you can see loads more in the background) and in the end his fears a proved justified when they get him in traffic and give him a hiding.

The bikers were lucky as I think many people (myself included) would have ran a few of them over and knock them off their bikes, I'd have been playing skittles with the ******* on the highway with my wife and son in the car, who knows what their intentions were when they started approaching the vehicle and presumably PULLED A KNIFE and slashed his tyre, as far as i'm concerned I would be running ANY ****** that came near me and my family over from that point on, all of them if I had to, round and round the highway till the cops got involved.

The vid has obviously been doctored to show only what the RR driver did, I'd be more interested in what happened before and after the vid stops, no doubt we will discover some minor altercation, after which the main protagonists (bikers) become offended and pursue the RR.

I've riden bikes for many years and had a few incidents with people in cars which at the end of the day goes with the territory, ALWAYS expect the car driver to do something stupid and not be paying attention as 80% of car drivers don't have a clue what's going on in front of them, never mind behind and around them.

If someone pulls out or does something stupid, it's usually through stupidity not malice, although you do get the odd **** that blocks on purpose, but the same happens in a car, so again par for the course.

At the end of the day a bunch of leather and helmet clad blokes blocking and marching up to your car with at least one knife then attacking your car is a statement of intent to do you harm, at which point escaping BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY is totally justified IMO.

**** em I say, game on if you start that sort of ****, expect to get 3 tons of RR rolling over your a$$.

 

Guy at the start is clearly attempting to bring the RR to a hault. This means that something happened prior to the footage starting. Whoever uploaded the video clearly missed out vital footage at the start and the end; he/she probably did this because it's damning to the bikers case.

I suspect something minor has happened, the bikers have over-reacted and forced a panic from the RR driver. This has then concluded with a many-on-one hiding. Hopefully some bikers will get charged and the RR man will get his moment on Oprah with his family.

 

Wherever the fault lies here, and it seems fairly obvious to me, I find it incredible that the biker who braked in front of the RR didn't seen to understand that he was always going to be on the losing team playing chicken against 3 tons of off roader.
Where was the realisation -"This thing could easily kill me"?

 

Jeez thats scary, i cant imagine what he family in the car were going through

Reminds me of this...


Mad Max becoming reality...

 

On another site it said they were attacking his car that's why he drove over the first bike, the guy that posted also said a biker was killed which the police said was not true. Agreed the video has been cut to miss out what the bikers done at the beginning and end. I love bikes but some people are just hooligans!