problems on Bermuda's roads. For whatever reasons, and the reasons are diverse, far too many people are killed and injured for a Country with strict laws and a low speed limit.

Aside from the two tragic deaths recorded over the weekend, there is a 40-year-old Hamilton Parish man in the intensive care unit after an accident on Friday evening on North Shore Road in Devonshire. He appears to have been run over while attempting to pass a vehicle. A 22-year-old Sandys Parish man suffered a broken leg after colliding with a parked car during what appears to have been pack racing on Middle Road in Warwick at 2.15 a.m. on Sunday morning.

The deaths resulted from two other cycle collisions. Kenneth Perinchief was in the prime of life, a young man with a college degree looking for his place in Bermuda. He died on The Causeway on his way to work at American Airlines getting the 7 a.m. flight off to New York.

Leon N. Pike, 70, was a much older man who died as a result of a crash on Middle Road, Devonshire, last Thursday. He was remembered as "a good, loving husband and a good father and grandfather''.

When these tragedies occur everyone is affected by the wastage of human life and the pain and suffering of both those injured and those left behind. Who knows what great things young Kenneth Perinchief with his college degree in International Business Administration might have accomplished for himself and for Bermuda? For too brief a time we all pause to consider these tragedies and then go on about our business.

Instead we should all give consideration to what we can do, both collectively and individually, to make things better on Bermuda's roads. The roads are crowded but like many other things they are not really dangerous if used properly. Far too often those who complain about road conditions are among those who contribute to the dangers.

In general, there is too much speeding, too much passing on corners and yellow lines, too little attention to warning signs and too little care for other road users. Use the roads at your own risk seems to be the attitude.

That is certainly true of pack racing which roars into our lives all too often. It usually takes a death to calm down pack racers so perhaps the 22-year-old who collided with a parked car in Warwick was lucky.

While we are at it, let's enforce the "driving without due care and attention'' law where it applies to the use of telephones by those driving vehicles before we have a totally unnecessary death.