Two motorcyclists were last night in intensive care and three others were treated for injuries after a string of accidents over the weekend.

A 21-year-old Warwick man and a 23-year-old Southampton man were both in stable condition in the intensive care unit at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last night after two separate accidents involving overtaking traffic.

Around 11.30 p.m. on Friday the 21-year-old motorcyclist tried to overtake three vehicles travelling in the same direction along Harbour Road, in Warwick, near the junction with Tribe Road 6.

Police said he appeared to have lost control of the bike, collided with a sidewalk, a wall and then flipped over the wall onto sharp rocks on the other side.

He suffered head injuries, including a cut to his face, a broken arm and legs and was taken to the KEMH. Last night he was still in ICU in serious condition.

Then, in the early hours of Saturday morning, the 23-year-old driver of a motorcycle and his passenger, a 19-year-old Southampton man, tried to overtake a car at the corner of Spurling Hill and Crow Lane in Pembroke.

They collided with a car coming in the opposite direction and the 23-year-old suffered head injuries and a broken thigh bone, while Police said his passenger had unidentified injuries.

Both were taken to the hospital by ambulance, but only the 23-year-old was in ICU last night in serious condition while the driver of the car, a 19-year-old Pembroke man, was uninjured.

Around 11.45 p.m. on Saturday a 22-year-old Hamilton Parish man tried to overtake a car and collided with another car coming in the opposite direction at the junction of Loyal Hill Road and North Shore Road, in Devonshire.

The motorcyclist suffered a serious injury to his foot, a cut to his right knee as well as several other cuts and bruises. Last night he was said to be in stable condition on a general ward at the KEMH.

The driver of the car, a 34-year-old Sandys woman was not injured however, there was significant damage to the cycle and the front of the car.

These accidents come only three weeks since David Small died on his 19th birthday became the 14th death on Bermuda's roads and two weeks since Vernell Eugene Smith, 38 became the 15th.

It was the first time in 10 years the number has been higher than 14, in 2006, with 17 road deaths in 1998.