Bikers assault banker in New York highway clash
Chinese-American man dragged from his SUV and attacked in front of wife and daughter after driving through gang to escape confrontation
The video seemed clear enough, showing an apparently two- sided confrontation that escalated into violence.
A Range Rover collides with one of scores of motorcycles on New York's Henry Hudson Parkway. A confrontation ensues, then another crash in which the Range Rover driver ploughs over the stationary bikers. Finally, a chase that ends with the SUV driver being attacked as his wife and toddler sit helplessly.
But the crispness of the helmet-camera images, captured by a rider in the pack of motorcyclists, gave way on Tuesday to a painstaking effort by investigators to piece together a frantic sequence of events that stretched over many minutes and several kilometres and that involved dozens of suspects and witnesses.
Instead, police said on Tuesday that they had charged two of the motorcyclists; one of them had turned himself in. A third rider was sent to hospital, according to a family representative, who said the man's legs had been broken when the Range Rover roared through the crowd of motorcyclists gathered around the one who had been knocked to the ground in the initial collision.