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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
It sounds as though The Villlages Golf Cart store is not only covering their behinds in case of an issue of a "speeder" saying "I bought the cart from this store and I didn't know" as well as doing the proper thing.
Yesterday, I was in my cart on Morse going my 20 mph and another cart passes me and he was going about 30 (I guess) - he went out of the cart lane, of course. I bet he wishes that he had checked the surroundings. He had pulled out right in front of a Sumter County police car to pass me! YEP, he got pulled over immediately.
Figure around $500 for that mistake!
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I know someone personally that got pulled over for speeding on Bailey and it is a felony. He even had to buy his way off of probation. His ticket cost him in excess of $900, he had to get his golf cart modified before the hearing and show proof it had been modified. The ticket was for driving an unregistered vehicle on the road or something like that. In other words it was not "street legal" and tagged with a license plate. It can be extremely expensive and as someone else said.....do not show up in court in shorts....come dressed as if you are going to church. All of the golf cart stores and repair businesses were sent letters that modifying golf carts to exceed the 19.5 miles an hour is illegal. It was a warning of things to come. We're all retired and where do we have to get so fast? Safety first.