Video: About 30 kids rode bicycles through the O’Neill Tunnel

State police say about 30 kids on bicycles rode through traffic in the O’Neill Tunnel on Saturday evening before they were “forced out” by troopers at the South Station exit. The young bicyclists entered the underground passage for I-93 at Leverett Circle around 6:30 p.m., state police spokesman Dustin Fitch said in a statement. William Dyer, who was driving home from Cambridge to Hanover at the time, told Boston 25 News that some of the kids looked like they were about 14 years old. He said that at first, when he saw one kid doing a wheelie, he thought it was for a movie. “I got all excited,” he told the station “I thought we were going to be in the movies because they are making so many movies in Boston now.” But when Dyer didn’t see a film crew, he got concerned and turned on his hazard lights. “I stayed behind them so no one would get hit because we were going around corners and people were beeping the horn,” he told Boston 25. “I was afraid someone was going to get hurt, it was dangerous.”

A group of teens decided to ride their bicycles through the O’Neill Tunnel! Troopers located them and forced them out of the tunnel, but didn’t chase them because of safety concerns. pic.twitter.com/PlM4myvhc1

— Kris Anderson (@KrisAndersonTV) April 1, 2019

Fitch said responding troopers caught up to the kids and forced them out at the exit for South Station.

“We didn’t pursue them due to obvious safety reasons,” Fitch said.