I have had enough.

For the seemingly fiftieth time I have helped pick up the pieces of a tourist off of one of our roads.

The scene was Harbour Road, on a warm and sunny Bermudaful day. I came around a corner of Harbour road to an awful sight. A tourist bike on its side. A man staggering and finally collapsing on the road. His wife lay 10 feet away, unconscious, face down, and bleeding profusely from the head.

I did what anyone of us would do. Several others and I stopped to help and comfort. As I held the man's hand, I surveyed the situation. The accident had just happened, yet neither of the tourists had helmets on.

A witness to the accident told me that they had indeed been wearing helmets at the time of the crash. The helmets were 20 feet away from the tourists. They were hollowed out pieces of styrofoam with minimal padding. The straps were still done up.

How can we, as a country, allow our visitors, or our fellow countrymen, to wear such inferior safety devices? Why do we not have laws which require only authorised helmets be worn on bikes? What is it going to take before our collective conscious forces us to demand that changes be made? Why do we have to continue to mop up people off of our roads? Let's listen to Dr. Froncioni's recommendations and the suggestions in his Smartrisk programme.

I am imploring all of you to write, call, and badger Dr. Ewart Brown, our Minister of Transportation. He can change this. We can change this.

PAULA WIGHT SOUTHAMPTON