Daredevil ATV Rider Taunts Police Car: Watch Video

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD — A reckless ATV driver taunting a Prince George’s County Police patrol car highlights an ongoing problem on metro roads.

In most cases, police departments around the Washington, DC, area do not chase law-breaking dirt bike or ATV drivers because of the dangers involved. Several riders died in crashes the past two years as they fled from police after driving illegally on streets.

A video posted to Instagram last weekend takes the problem to a new level. A man rides wheelies with an ATV, stands on one leg and drives without touching the handlebars – all while zooming down Pennsylvania Avenue in District Heights.

To make matters worse, he’s cutting in front of and riding alongside a police car during the filming, cheered on an unseen cameraman urging him to ride without using his hands, and to keep going.

»Watch the reckless ATV driver video here. Warning: Profane language is used.

“We did not pursue in this case as the crimes committed do not warrant pursuit according to our departmental policy,” police spokesman Officer Tyler Hunter told WTOP.

Hunter said the department is aware of the video and investigating, but police have not identified the driver.

The problem of daredevil drivers on area highways is a recurring one.

In December, a swam of an estimated 100 motorycles and ATV riders brought traffic on the Capital Beltway to a halt.

Traffic cameras showed the bikers zooming through traffic on the Inner Loop in Prince George’s County, I-295 and U.S. 50, reports WTOP. The hot-dogging riders drove against the traffic flow, popped wheelies and reportedly harassed Beltway drivers.

Maryland State Police troopers rushed to the Beltway, but the bikers had left by the time officers arrived.

»Images of ATV driver from YouTube video