Look twice to save a life. That is a campaign that was started to make motorist more aware of motorcycle riders on the road.
"Take just a second and look twice and maybe look a third time cause you never know," said 'EDBD,' a member of Alternative M.C. "You can't always hear a bike."
"You know you look, look in all three mirrors and then just turn your head a little bit," said Vato, Alternative M.C. "Just take a little time. I realize that everyone has lives but realize that we have lives too."
The riders in the M.C. said things like cellphones have become a distraction for drivers and take their attention from the road.
"There's never one time that I've been on my bike that there hasn't been someone that hasn't been someone that has come into my lane," said 'Edge,' M.C. member. "If you could just put your telephone down while we're coming by you then that would help us greatly."
Alternative's president, Detour, said you have got to really pay attention when you are around motorcycle riders.
"When you're passing, you know, get around us before you cut in front of our land and when we are passing you, let us get around and don't pull into the lane that we are already at," Detour said. "Open your eyes just the same way that we have to."
One of the riders said he has experienced a riders worst fear, crashing because a driver wasn't paying attention.
"It was either get t-boned or just lay it down and take the road rash and that's what I did," Vato said. "I just laid it down and watched me roll and watched my bike hit her car. It messed me up pretty bad. Messed up my collar bone and split my head pretty bad. Thank God that's all that happened."
Local business owner and rider Greg Layton has a message for everyone out there on the road.
"I would just urge both riders and drivers of cars alike to consider everyone on the road is a husband, a father, a son," Layton said.
"Every bodies life has value and the need to check a text, or a Facebook or adjust the radio and put someone else's life at risk just isn't worth it."
