One Rider Arrested After Biker Mob Attack Of SUV

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com

The New York tabloids have been going bonkers over the beat-down of an SUV driver by a swarm of bikers following a fender bender on the West Side Highway on Sunday afternoon.

“The New York Post” quoted law enforcement officials in declaring that the “psycho bikers who viciously beat a Manhattan driver in front of his wife and 2-year-old daughter were at first trying to slow him down so they could get in front of him and take over the West Side Highway.”

The driver, 33-year-old Alexian Lien, a graduate of Columbia and “an Internet honcho,” suffered knife cuts to his face, according to “The New York Daily News.”

The newspaper quoted police as saying Lien (below at right with wife Rosalyn) was “not expected to be charged” following the running confrontation, which began after he bumped into a bike that swerved into his path and stopped.

That bike was ridden by Christopher Cruz, 28, who has been charged with reckless endangerment, reckless menacing and endangering the welfare of a child.

One rider, 26-year-old Edwin Mieses, suffered broken legs and paralysis from the waist down and is in the hospital on a ventilator after Lien hit the gas and attempted to escape after apparently feeling threatened by the swarm of bikers during the initial incident. At least three motorcycles were run over and Mieses was struck, the “Daily News” reported.

The “Daily News” dubbed Sunday’s chaos as “a hell-on-wheels ordeal,” and police are hunting for more biker suspects. The “New York Post” quotes sources as saying one suspect, Allen Edwards, who allegedly smashed a window in Lien’s Range River with his helmet, surrendered to police this morning.

The “Daily News” story can be found here. The latest “New York Post” stories can be found here and here.

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