days, an Opposition MP called for Government action to reduce the carnage.

Shadow Tourism Minister Mr. David Allen laid some of the blame at the feet of cycle livery operators, whom he suggested could be motivated by greed in renting cycles as quickly as possible, rather than assuring the safety of visitors.

The number of accidents on rented cycles "really causes one to wonder whether...the cycle liveries are giving adequate instructions to our visitors, who are often mounting these contraptions for the first time,'' Mr. Allen said in the House of Assembly yesterday.

There was an understandable "temptation by the cycle liveries to really turn over as many customers as possible'', said the Progressive Labour Party MP from Pembroke East Central.

Government should monitor what the liveries are doing, and find other ways to educate visitors about the potential dangers of Bermuda's roads, he said. At about 1 p.m. yesterday, a 55-year-old visitor from the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship received back and head injuries after he lost control of his rented cycle on St. David's Road and crashed into the US Naval Air Station fence, Police said.

He was admitted to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital with a broken clavicle and an undisclosed head injury.

On Tuesday, a 10-year-old girl and her 64-year-old grandfather were taken to the hospital's intensive care unit with head injuries after their rented cycle collided with a truck. They were visiting aboard the Meridian .

The Tourism Department and the Transport Control Department could help visitors by publicising the Island's road laws and the potential hazards of cycles at the Civil Air Terminal and cruise passenger terminals, Mr. Allen said.

Possibly, literature could be distributed on airplanes and cruise liners, he said. "We're no longer the Isles of rest,'' and Bermuda's narrow, winding, and heavily-travelled roads "can be more dangerous than some of the major highways''.