WATCH: ‘Look twice and save a life’: Bikers ride in solidarity

Nearly 100 motorcyclists gathered at McCurdy Corner for a memorial ride in honour of the late Tavin Hansom.

Hansom, 18, passed away on June 23 after a fatal collision, when a vehicle coming from Old Vernon Road, turned left in front of him on Highway 97 while he was on his way home.

“I didn’t personally know Tavin Hansom,” the organizer of the ride, Jake Burroughs told Kelowna10. “But he’s part of the riding community, so he’s family to us.”

Burroughs and other riders at the memorial said it’s not the roads that are unsafe, it’s other motorists that are the biggest danger to motorcyclists.

“One of the big things for people that are in other vehicles, is to look twice and save a life,” Ken Roche, a participant of the ride said. “If you’re making a left turn across two lanes of traffic, you need to look more than twice.”

Hansom’s mother was in attendance, with droves of riders coming up to give her a hug and their condolences.

One of them was Barbara Bjorge, who came out in support of the family as she had also lost her son in a similar accident just two years prior.

“I know the pain,” she said. “Please take the [motorcycle] course, please drive safe, please drive like everybody’s out to kill you because they don’t see you.”

Before the ride began, a speech was made to thank all of those who came out in support and to stress the importance of safety.

“The biggest thing is we got to be safe,” Jake Burroughs said. “[Ride] at the speed limit, slow and steady, all the way up.”

Burroughs led the group as they mounted their motorcycles and rode off to the Winfield Memorial Hall where Hansom’s celebration of life was being held.