Watch Bikers Bring Capital Beltway to a Halt

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD — A swam of an estimated 100 dirt bike and ATV riders brought traffic on the Capital Beltway to a halt, and police are studying video posted of the culprits in hopes of making arrests.

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 Sunday, popped wheelies and reportedly harassed Beltway drivers.

Maryland State Police troopers from the Forestville and College Parks barracks rushed to the Beltway, but the bikers had left by the time officers arrived.

Investigators are examining a video taken by motorists and posted on YouTube in hopes of finding license tag numbers that can lead them to the bikers.

In the video, dozens of motorcycles – and a few all-terrain vehicles – can be seen cutting between vehicles on the Beltway, at times going slow, then revving their engines and speeding ahead of honking cars. One biker appears to hold his cell phone overhead as he drives to film the action behind him.

“This is terrifying,” a woman who appears to have filmed the melee can be heard saying as she and a man try to drive through the motorcycles. “What is even happening right now? This is crazy.”

And just when it appears that the two-wheeled crowd had dispersed, her video shows bikers stopping, and then turning around to ride at the oncoming traffic.

»Screenshots from YouTube video