Trojita
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Clarification Edit: The man who was paralyzed, Mieses, was not the one that break checked the SUV.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-hunt-bikers-wanted-wild-upper-manhattan-attack-article-1.1472419
I've been hearing conflicting reports about what happened.
Either the guy Cruz, who was the only one arrested, was driving erratically or he was brake checking the SUV. The SUV hit Cruz in the back of the motorcycle and Cruz wanted Lien to park on the side of the road. Supposedly some of the other bikers started hitting the side of the vehicle with their helmets and slashing his tire. The SUV sped up and ran over Mieses as well as a few motorcycles. Mieses was supposedly trying to check on one of the bikers at the time. Mieses was at first announced as having both legs broken, but it now looks like he might be permanently paralyzed. He is currently in a medically induced coma.
Some bikers chased after Lien. Cruz stayed behind to see to Mieses injuries and was not one of those people who drove after Lien in a scary chase.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/01/nypd-suspects-sought-in-attack-on-suv-driver/
Update Edit:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/10/01/lawrence-man-seriously-injured-nyc-incident-involving-suv-and-motorcyclists/jHju3V1xAOsdF6Q2vT8BaL/story.html
Mieses was apparently not eligible to drive. He didn't have a motorcyclists license. He also has a history of being ticketed by the police.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-hunt-bikers-wanted-wild-upper-manhattan-attack-article-1.1472419
I've been hearing conflicting reports about what happened.
Either the guy Cruz, who was the only one arrested, was driving erratically or he was brake checking the SUV. The SUV hit Cruz in the back of the motorcycle and Cruz wanted Lien to park on the side of the road. Supposedly some of the other bikers started hitting the side of the vehicle with their helmets and slashing his tire. The SUV sped up and ran over Mieses as well as a few motorcycles. Mieses was supposedly trying to check on one of the bikers at the time. Mieses was at first announced as having both legs broken, but it now looks like he might be permanently paralyzed. He is currently in a medically induced coma.
Some bikers chased after Lien. Cruz stayed behind to see to Mieses injuries and was not one of those people who drove after Lien in a scary chase.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/01/nypd-suspects-sought-in-attack-on-suv-driver/
Dayana Mieses, the wife of Edwin Mieses, said her husband got off his bike to help a biker who was hit in the initial collision.
“When all the bikers stopped, my husband got out, parked his bike to walk over to try to help his friend. He walked over towards the front of the vehicle when, at this point, I don’t know what happened the man was scared, the man just peeled off and ran over my husband,” she told WBZ-TV.
Mieses said her husband has injuries to his heart, lungs and ribs and that he is paralyzed from the waist down. The couple has two children, ages 15 and 9.
Some of the bikers are seen getting off their motorcycles and approaching the car. That’s when police said some of the bikers begin damaging the Range Rover, though it’s not clear from the video.
“They take their helmets and they start to dent his car and apparently his tires are slashed there,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Update Edit:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/10/01/lawrence-man-seriously-injured-nyc-incident-involving-suv-and-motorcyclists/jHju3V1xAOsdF6Q2vT8BaL/story.html
Mieses was apparently not eligible to drive. He didn't have a motorcyclists license. He also has a history of being ticketed by the police.
Though Mieses is a Massachusetts resident, he has never had a valid Massachusetts driver’s license for a passenger vehicle and has never applied for a motorcycle license, the Registry of Motor Vehicles said.
Registry records show that Mieses applied for a learner’s permit in 1999 and 2000, but that he never obtained a full license because he failed to pay fines imposed after he was ticketed for speeding in Lawrence in 1999. His last contact with the Registry was in 2001, when he obtained an identification card, registry records show.
Since 1999, he has been ticketed by police 16 times, in Lawrence, Methuen, Roxbury, Andover, and New Hampshire, according to registry records.
In June, the Registry notified the National Driver Register that Mieses was a habitual traffic offender whose right to drive in Massachusetts was revoked until 2017, records show.