1 Arrested In Newport Beach Road Rage Incident Involving Bicyclists, BMW

NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A Corona man was arrested this week in connection with a road rage incident involving aggressive drivers and two competitive cyclists in Orange County.

The suspect, identified as Samir Weiss, is in custody after a search warrant was served at his Corona home Thursday night, according to the Newport Beach Police Department.

Officers also seized a blue BMW M3 from Weiss's home.

The March 21 incident happened while cyclists Ben Byra and Luke Fetzer were training for a Sunday race along Pacific Coast Highway and Bayshore Drive in Newport Beach.

The dramatic footage published to Byra's social media account shows the driver of a blue BMW driving in the road's bike lane and coming up behind one of the cyclists.

The video shows the BMW driving within striking distance of the bike's rear wheel.

The video then shows Byra bunny hop onto the curb in an effort to get out of the BMW's path.

The video shows the driver immediately speeding up and getting within striking distance of Fetzer.

Byra told KTLA that the person driving the blue BMW wasn't the only aggressive driver on the road that day.

A person behind the wheel of a red-and-black Corvette joined in verbally on the attack, calling the cyclists homophobic slurs as they sped by, Byra said.

"We’re just riding single file," Fetzer told KTLA. "Ben is behind me. I’m in front of him and he comes up to us and starts laying on the horn and his buddy yells out the side window."

Newport Beach police officers took an incident report, but the status of the ongoing investigation was not immediately known.