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PICTURED: Wealthy couple attacked by wild pack of motorcyclists after harrowing 4-mile chase on the West Side Highway following fender bender turned hit-and-run — driver fled after running over biker Alexian Lien's Range Rover was surrounded by several bikers on the West Side Highway on Sunday. One biker apparently cut the driver off and slammed on the brakes just before the SUV bumped his rear tire. But when Lien — who was driving his wife, Rosalyn, and their 2-year-old child — stopped, several bikers began to damage his SUV. Lien fled, striking one biker. But the group caught up to him and pummeled him before cops arrived.
By Joe Kemp , Bill Hutchinson AND Rocco Parascandola / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, September 30, 2013, 9:55 AM Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 8:23 AM
 facebook bike victim Alexian Lien (right) with his wife Rosalyn Lien (left). Alexian was dragged out of his Range Rover and beaten by motorcyclists who accused him of hitting them.
A dad out for a Sunday drive on his first wedding anniversary was beaten and slashed by a vicious mob of motorcyclists in upper Manhattan who dragged him from his SUV in front of his wife and 2-year-old child.
Alexian Lien, 33, of lower Manhattan, became the target of the brutal bikers when he accidently struck one who cut him off on the Henry Hudson Parkway, triggering a wild 4-mile chase, cops said Monday.
 liveleak.com The driver initially stopped after the accident, but sped away and struck three motorcycles when the group began to damage his SUV. No one was hurt during the getaway.
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said up to 30 motorcyclists — many on sport and dirt bikes — finally caught up to Lien when he exited the parkway in Washington Heights and got stuck at a red light.
Startling video taken by a biker with a helmet cam shows one of the moto-psychos bashing in the driver’s-side window of the black Range Rover with a helmet and another pounding on the rear window, where Lien’s daughter was in a car seat.
 facebook Motorcyclist Jeremiah Mieses, 26, was hospitalized after being run-over by Alexian Lien when Lien attempted to flee from the bikers.
“He’s taken out of the car. He is assaulted,” Kelly said.
Lien, director of the e-commerce firm Skrill.com, was punched and slashed in the face with a knife in the shocking attack that occurred in daylight hours in front of horrified witnesses.
 liveleak.com The driver was driving northbound on the West Side Highway when he was surrounded by the bikers.
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By the time cops reached the scene, the bikers had driven off, leaving the pummeled Lien lying face-down on the pavement.
 Pictured through the car window is Alexian Lien's wife Rosalyn Lien with their baby daughter.
The bloodied victim, a graduate of Columbia University, was taken to Columbia University Medical Center, where he received stitches for his wounds and was later released.
Lien could not be reached for comment Monday, and his wife, Rosalyn Ng, was too distraught to speak when reached by phone.
 liveleak.com The driver was with his wife and their young child when they became trapped in a swarm of bikers along the West Side Highway on Sunday.
The hell-on-wheels ordeal began unfolding about 2 p.m. Sunday when Lien and his family found themselves swarmed suddenly by motorcycles hogging the northbound lanes of the Henry Hudson Parkway near W. 116th St., police sources said.
Lien struck one of the riders who cut him off then hit the brakes. The video of the incident shows the rider swerving in front of Lien’s SUV just before the accident.
 liveleak.com A motorcycle appears to hit the brakes before he was struck by the SUV.
Sources said Lien stopped, but “feared for his safety” as several of the wild ones got off their bikes and began to beat on his SUV. The terrified Lien dialed 911 on his cell phone, the sources said.
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 liveleak.com The man behind the wheel — who was driving his wife and their young child — feared for his safety and fled the group when they began to damage his SUV.
“He’s surrounded by about 20 to 30 motorcyclists,” Kelly said. “They take their helmets and they start to dent his car and apparently his tires are slashed there with a knife. He’s in the car with his wife. He continues to drive.”
The dramatic helmet-cam footage, which went viral on YouTube, shows Lien hitting the gas and plowing through and over at least three motorcycles, striking at least one rider and breaking his legs, before speeding away.
 liveleak.com The driver plowed through at least three bikes to get away — but bikers were hurt, police said.
“The rider was bleeding out of his mouth and nose even though he had a helmet on,” said a witness, who asked to remain anonymous. “He was conscious but couldn’t move at all.”
As some riders hopped off their bikes to tend to their injured friend, other angry bikers began to speed up the thoroughfare in pursuit of the SUV.
 liveleak.com The driver of the SUV was the only injury reported, cops say.
At one point, the motorcycles again surrounded Lien’s luxe, four-wheel-drive ride, this time near W. 125th St. One of the bikers tried to open the door, but Lien hit the gas, striking another motorcycle.
Lien exited the parkway at W. 178th St., trying to lose the pack, but was slowed down by his slashed, flattened tires.
 liveleak.com The driver initially stopped, but fled after the group of bikers began to damage his vehicle.
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When he was forced to stop in traffic at a red light on W. 178th St. near Wadsworth Ave., the bikers attacked.
 liveleak.com The bikers sped through upper Manhattan to catch up with the driver, who struck a motorcycle on the West Side Highway.
The footage then cuts off — but police say the bikers pulled Lien from his SUV, beat him to the ground and slashed his face.
“They had been riding all over the city being a menace,” said Cynthia Williams, 59, of Harlem, who saw a pack of bikers on W. 145th St. more than an hour after the attack on Lien.
 liveleak.com The wild chase began after the driver struck one of the motorcycles on the West Side Highway.
“They went up on the sidewalk. It was just so many of them that they took up the whole street.”
Sources said Jeremiah Mieses, 26, of Lawrence, Mass., was the biker struck by Lien’s vehicle and was hospitalized with two broken legs.
 liveleak.com The driver, described only as being in his 30s, received stitches to his face after the attack.
“My son just got out of surgery. Now we have to contend with his situation that he will never walk again,” Mieses’ father, the Rev. Edwin Mieses of Hazleton, Pa., posted on Facebook.
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 liveleak.com The bikers attacked the driver in Washington Heights after a wild chase through upper Manhattan on Sunday.
No arrests were immediately made in the attack on Lien.
Police said Lien is not expected to be charged, but the investigation is continuing.
 liveleak.com A biker’s helmet cam shows the wild chase in upper Manhattan after a fender bender on the West Side Highway.
Kelly said cops were using the video and surveillance cameras try to identify some of the bikers, but most of the motorcycles didn’t have license plates and riders’ faces were obscured by their helmets.
The commissioner said police had been monitoring the ride — loosely organized by a group that calls itself Hollywood Stuntz. He said about 1,000 riders caused chaos in Times Square last year when they showed up out of nowhere and disrupted traffic.
 Alexian Lien in Currently believed to be the bike victim.
Police arrested 15 bikers and confiscated 55 motorcycles during incidents Sunday unrelated to the Lien attack, Kelly said. He said 68 summonses were issued.
Commenters on the story of the attack posted on NYDailyNews.com said Lien was justified to flee to protect his wife and child.
 instagram/redyredbx Alexian Lien who was pulled from his Range Rover and beaten by angry motorcyclists before police arrived.
“I hope they find, castrate and hang these guys,” one commenter posted. “WHERE IS THE MAYOR? WHERE IS THE PD?”
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