identified who is causing the problem on the roads today: We are.

Everyone bears some responsibility for bad driving on the roads and none of us can claim to have never made a mistake while driving.

To be sure, some people are worse drivers than others, but all of us could do better and be more careful.

Here are three things that all of us can do to make the roads safer: Slow down: What's the hurry? Unless you are driving from Somerset to St.

George's and back without stopping, speeding is not going to save more than about two minutes because most journeys in Bermuda are short.

How many times has a car overtaken you at speed, then overtaken a couple more cars on a corner, only to be found stuck at a stop sign a couple of minutes later? More to the point, how many times have you overtaken a car only to find it behind you at a stop sign? Stay back: The minimum safe distance to travel behind a car is one car length.

When the car in front slams on its brakes to let a cat cross the road and you rear end it, you are liable, and you are the person who will probably get hurt.

Use indicators: Many people in Bermuda first learned to drive on mopeds, many of which had no indicators. It is a hard habit to break, but whether you are on a bike or in a car, it really helps other drivers to know where you are going. Go and sit at the Flatts Village road junction if you don't understand.

These steps will not solve all of Bermuda's road problems, which are caused as much by the fact that we have too many vehicles as by carelessness. But until Government stops increasing the width of cars allowed on the Island, turning a blind eye to the people who have found a way to have two cars (you know who you are), the small (and large) business owners who steer empty vans around all day and the other causes of congestion, the roads are going to be more and more dangerous.

So, in the words of the sergeant on Hill Street Blues, be careful out there.

PESTICIDES EDT Pesticides The other opinion on this page is an overdue wake-up call on the dangers of pesticides. Bermuda would do well to ban those pesticides which are threatening the environment and the most vulnerable animals in Bermuda's delicate eco-system. Even Sen. Calvin Smith, who would put housing before open space and humans before bluebirds, will recognise that poisoning our drinking water and food supplies will cause the human race's extinction as well.