West Virginia MGNOC is implementing a program to contact our state legislators (read bother the hell out of them) and the governor’s office to request support in helping us make the state police, the sheriff’s departments and the municipal police forces more aware of the dangers motorcyclists face due to negligent and aggressive driving.

We plan to contact these same groups as well, over and over. The program will address the following actions which we find extremely dangerous to motorcyclists:

Driving left of center
Tailgating
Driving aggressively

We’d like to see something done abut cell phone use and other behavior that distracts a driver, but these three are a good start.

We don’t plan to do this once and hope something will be done; we plan to do this regularly, consistently and for the duration. If you would like to volunteer to help, please contact us.

Yeah, we know, the AMA already does this sort of thing, and more power to them. If you aren’t a member, JOIN. It’s one of the best things you as a motorcyclist can do. If you’re not a member of MGNOC, join us, too. There’s a link to the MGNOC membership form and to the AMA on the Contacts page.