[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by John_W

I can think of three where a seat belt wouldn't have helped. In 2011 a golf cart traveling on St. Charles in the golf cart lane, was wiped out by a grass cutting truck with trailer when they ran the stop sign at Tamarind Grove Run.

In 2011 before they had opened Buena Vista south of 466A, a fellow in his golf cart was sightseeing on BV about 9pm at night. It was summer, so there was some daylight, he did not have his headlights on and went the wrong way about a traffic circle and met a truck head on going the opposite way.

This past January an 85 year old had just stopped at his mail station on the older section of Morse. He was southbound in the golf cart lane when he turned left to cross Morse to enter Fuentez, he was hit head on by a mini-van in the northbound lane. Photo below.

I'm on your side, John, but from what I understand, Mr Francis Hughes who died in January expired because he was thrown from his cart and struck his head on the pavement. His cart never tipped over in spite of being hit head on by a van. It is generally thought that he would have lived had he been wearing a seat belt. On the other hand, he would have lived had he not turned his car into the front of a van moving in the opposite direction.

I think that seat belts are a good idea, but I wouldn't want to see them mandated by the government.