Watch Motorcyclists Help Stranded Woman Cross The Road

MESA, AZ – Why did the three motorcyclists stop in the middle of the road? To help a woman get to the other side. It was Sunday around 1 p.m. and Patrick Patterson were driving by the intersection of 8th Avenue and Alamo School Road when they noticed a woman standing in the middle of the road.

"She clearly looked scared," Patterson tells Patch. "It didn't take a lot of thought to know what we had to do."

Patterson, who works at Arizona Heart Hospital as surgical assistant in cardio and thoracic surgery, knew the answer was in his heart.

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"She was in distress," he says. "No one was stopping to let her go. She was frightened and confused."

Patterson was with his friends, Damon Pruitt and Eduardo Plascenia.

"I've only been riding about a year," he says. "I started after my older brother died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. It made me want to do something a little dangerous, something in his honor.

"A lot of people have ideas about motorcyclists and who they are. It's nice to be able to show people that we're just people."

Patterson wore a camera on his helmet which recorded the scene of him and his friends turning and heading back to the woman. They stopped their bikes in the middle of the road, stopping traffic, allowing the woman to cross the road. On the video you can see that as she reaches the sidewalk, she turns and waves in gratitude.

Patterson says they never spoke with the woman.

"We made sure that she got across the street and then went on our way," he says. "It was just an opportunity to do something nice for someone."

Later that day, he posted the video to a Facebook group.

"I wanted to spread the word about doing good things, to let people know that we're out here and we care," he says. "We live in a world where there's so much anger. People forget how easy it is to just take a moment to do something nice for someone.

"It's how my brothers and I were raised. Do the right thing. Chivalry's not dead."

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Photo and video courtesy Robert Patterson.