Car chased by motorbike gang! WTF???

[rhubarb]

Question, this was the 'states, right? Why weren't the doors locked on his car?

And also, why did the car not explode when someone hit the window ?
Which is what I believe happens to cars in the US.
Unless Hollywood has lied to me.

[Support Monkey]

Do you mean the bit near the start where a biker pulls in front of the Range Rover and then starts slowing down, while looking behind himself at the car, as if he's trying to force the driver to stop?

[EDIT: He may not have been looking back at the car, but does appear to have pulled in front and then slowed down while looking over his other shoulder. With bikes going past on both sides I'd imaging the driver was probably quite distracted and probably didn't see this guy slowing down]

The biggest unclear thing about this is near the start where you see the driver suddenly pull away, obviously piling over the top of a couple of bikes. What you can't see is whether he had a reason to do so, such as them trying to pull his doors open as they do later.
I have a feeling the whole incident must have started even earlier than the video. A wild guess would be something like a near miss, or one party or the other getting cut up, and road rage escalated.

As for later on, once he'd already had bikers trying to open the car doors, I'm surprised that when the next lot started trying to overtake him he didn't just swerve over and sideswipe them.

Like i said there are 2 videos doing the rounds, that is not the start of the video, on one of the videos it starts with the range rover running over several bikes, (the front end goes up in the air), the bit with the fella slowing is later on

[Ticktock]

Like i said there are 2 videos doing the rounds, that is not the start of the video, on one of the videos it starts with the range rover running over several bikes, (the front end goes up in the air), the bit with the fella slowing is later on

Possibly - this video has the biker slowing first, then a little later the Range Rover flying over the top of a few bikes. Are you sure this isn't the longer version?

[DirtyDog]

Well it is easy to say that sort of thing now. He was panicking and terrified.

Also, they broke his windows when they stopped him near the end, I assumed that was because his doors were locked but I might be mistaken.

They weren't locked the first time they opened the door.

[MyUserName]

They weren't locked the first time they opened the door.

Yes but I believe some American cars have an option where you can lock the doors at your convenience.

[SimonMac]

Sorry but not even sure why this up for debate, the bikers are in the wrong for thinking that they rule the road. If a gang that big surround my car with my family in it I am flooring it, obviously the sensible thing would be to drive straight to the nearest police station to report it, I can't believe US roads won't have some sort of CCTV for traffic etc.

[MyUserName]

Sorry but not even sure why this up for debate, the bikers are in the wrong for thinking that they rule the road. If a gang that big surround my car with my family in it I am flooring it, obviously the sensible thing would be to drive straight to the nearest police station to report it, I can't believe US roads won't have some sort of CCTV for traffic etc.

I am guessing he was trying to do that when he got caught in traffic. I would have floored it in reverse and considered any injuries to the bikers to be their own fault but he did not and is lucky not to have been killed for it.

[MyUserName]

It seems that there were some police officers actually in the gang - even more scary!

Off-duty police officers part of group involved in NYC motorcycle road rage incident - CBS News

Biker Gangs | New York Post