\u201cI was afraid that they might cause an accident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were driving the opposite direction of the road, then they joined the flow of vehicles and took over both lanes and didn\u2019t allow anybody to overtake them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dashcam footage shows riders running a red light, performing wheelies, mounting the footpath and weaving in and around cars and traffic cones at a crowded intersection.<\/p>\n
Aziz said traffic slowed to about 40km\/h as drivers tried to keep their distance. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey would speed up all at once and then slow down again just to make sure they spread all over the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He claimed many riders had their faces covered and no visible number plates, and none appeared to be wearing helmets.<\/p>\n
Aziz said he saw riders antagonising another driver in front of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver was slowing down as much as possible to avoid them and ended up going on the motorway to stay away from them, which was a smart choice in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said they were aware of informal rides planned across parts of Counties Manukau and Auckland City this weekend.<\/p>\n
Counties Manukau Police Inspector Dave Christoffersen said they would be monitored and action taken against riders who broke road rules or engaged in anti-social behaviour.<\/p>\n
Aziz said the behaviour left him concerned about the risk of a serious crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are jeopardising their lives first and then they are jeopardising the life of everyone else on the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The bikers] are at the mercy of how responsive other drivers are.\u201d<\/p>\n
He urged other motorists to remain calm if they encountered similar scenes. <\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t try to do anything crazy \u2026 just give them the way, there is nothing to prove, let them pass.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was afraid that they might cause an accident,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were driving the opposite direction of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,1070,28648,11776,3549,19552,28164,210916,3950,6187,111,43,139,69,29241,51797,1076,1314,312,52039,143211,39537,8229,210,3946,167684],"class_list":["post-409994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-bike","tag-blocked","tag-busy","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-fears","tag-jeopardised","tag-lanes","tag-lives","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pack","tag-performed","tag-riders","tag-road","tag-says","tag-stunt","tag-stunts","tag-swarm","tag-they","tag-through","tag-traffic","tag-wove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}