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Originally Posted by Talk Host
It's almost as if fate played a role in this. This morning, I was driving west on Calumet at 25 miles per hour. A cart, going in the same direction as me, was in the cart lane. All in an instant, a walker came toward the cart.
The cart swerved out in front of me and I smashed the brakes to the floor board, skidding the tires and sounding the horn. It was one of those stops where everything in my truck slammed into the dashboard and onto the floor.
A 5 or 6 year old girl was driving the cart. Grandpa was in the middle and had to grab the steering wheel in a panic maneuver to pull it to the right.
Folks, I came within inches of killing a five or six year old child today. 
I lowered my passenger side window and looked out at Grandpa. He wouldn't make eye contact with me. He turned his head to the right away from me. Traffic was panic stopping all around me, so I had no time to speak to the grandfather.
I was so shaken that I had to pull onto a side street and stop. I wanted to exit the truck and speak to grandpa, but they were gone.
I called the sheriff and got the answer I expected. Since there was no registration on the cart, there is no way to identify it and there is nothing they can do.  |
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What a terrible experience you had! I don't want to imagine what that felt like...to be so close to having an accident with someone. If everyone in TV would take the golf cart safety course before they set foot in their golf carts I bet we would all see a difference in attitudes about letting children drive golf carts. There was a woman in the Golf Cart Safety class when my husband & I took it, and she lived in TV for over 20 years. Never got around to taking the class earlier. She was surprised how much she learned. My husband and I learned a lot of things about safely driving a golf cart in TV at this class. It's too bad it's not mandatory for everyone who drives a golf cart and for passengers too. We can only hope and pray that some day this will happen.