Police are investigating after a bushwalker was allegedly threatened in front of his two young children by a dirt bike rider, who was riding on Crown land at Woronora illegally.
The father, who did not wish to be named, said two dirt bikes went close to hitting his son, six, and daughter, four, on the Sydney Water pipeline track.
After an exchange of words, one of the riders had started to dismount and “was going to belt me”.
“It was only when I took out my phone and started to take photos that he jumped back on and took off,” he said.
The man said his children were in tears.
He had later made a statement at Sutherland police station.
Sutherland local area command acting crime manager Andrea Panozzo said there was an “ongoing investigation” into the matter.
The father said he regularly walked the track with his children.
“The kids normally take their art books and folders, and we sit somewhere along the track and trace out leaves and other things they find,” he said.
“We were at the top of a hill near a bend, and I was sitting on a block for the pipeline.
“I could hear the bikes, and suddenly realised they were approaching at speed.
“I grabbed my son and threw him up on to the pipeline, and then grabbed my daughter.
“Just after that, the bikes came flying around the corner at about 60km/h.
“There is no way they would have been able to stop if the kids were still there.”
The man said he was shown photos from a previous incident on the track, and the same rider was involved.
Website woronoravalley.com, which was the first to report the incident, said three months earlier a bushwalker, 66, was “bailed up” by two illegal motorcyclists, one carrying a tree branch.
The matter had been reported to police, but no action had yet been taken, the website said.