The recent deaths on the roads of Bermuda have had a profound effect on a number of people in Bermuda - but one resident felt so upset she decided to take her message to the streets.

Nurse Nadirah Shakir, who works at the surgical outpatient department of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, was behind the warning posters put up along East Broadway yesterday.

With warnings such as "stop the madness" and "speeding kills" colleagues said she went in the early hours yesterday and pinned the brightly-coloured posters on trees and posts in the hope that it would trigger consciences and slow down the pace of traffic.

Her stand came after two deaths on the roads in a matter of days, along with a number of serious accidents.

The community is still reeling from shock after six-year-old Tyaisha Cox was knocked down and killed as she walked across a pedestrian crossing on her way to summer day camp last Thursday.

A bus stopped to let the youngster and her brother off outside Purvis Primary School in Warwick, and then waited while they crossed the road.

However, a woman in a jeep pulled out from behind the bus and overtook it, driving straight through the crossing and mowing down the little girl.

And on Wednesday, 24-year-old Lloyd Dellano Burch became the eighth road fatality of the year when he died of head injuries after trying to overtake a car on his bike, and colliding head on with an oncoming vehicle.

Yesterday, his mother Deborah Burch, of Woodlawn Road, Sandys, welcomed the roadside posters and the Police crackdown on dangerous drivers, and urged everyone to take greater care on the roads.

She said: "I was really pleased.

"When I heard the Police were going to crack down, I thought it had to be good because somebody's life could be saved."