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Originally Posted by hoot2602
It's about time. Safety is the issue here, not grandparents' pride of letting their youngsters drive GC in TV. I've seen it so many times...the youngsters are simply inexperienced and there isn't enough time for grandparents/adults to communicate instructions and have youngsters react in time in order to make corrections/reactions. Our home CC just instituted this same rule. Safety is first, not someone's pride!
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I must be looking in the wrong place; haven't seen any articles about 14 year olds in golf cart accidents. Where can I read more about the "too many times" that you have seen?
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
No law can regulate poor judgment. As the saying goes, "you can't fix stupid".
Saw a cart yesterday, a couple in front, and a woman holding an infant on the back seat, facing backward. No seat belt. Nothing between her and the pavement but thin air and the (assumed) skills of the elderly guy at the wheel.
I don't know if there are laws against that. But how many laws need to be passed before people stop being a danger to themselves? The list is probably endless.
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What were the injuries from what you saw?
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Originally Posted by toeser
I totally get and appreciate the law. It was needed. We even observed two young girls who ran a four-wheel ATV into a ditch.
Different times. I grew up on a farm and was driving my dad's milk cans to town in a pickup truck when I was 13. The local cop said "no problem" as long as I behaved.
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An ATV in the Villages is already against the law. But running into a ditch? There are ditches in the Villages?
You drove a pickup on a road at 13 and lived to tell about it yet driving a sped-limited golf cart on paths in a retirement community is now unsafe at 14?
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Originally Posted by justjim
We purchased in TV April 2006. There have several fatalities with golf carts and all adults. I’m not saying the new law is bad but I am saying a well supervised 14-15 year old is very capable of driving a golf cart. Next law will be that 80 year olds seniors can no longer drive a golf cart in The Villages. Too old! Careful what you wish for.
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Exactly! (though I believe the law is unnecessary)
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Originally Posted by yankygrl
IMHO - if you need to be 16 in most states to get a drivers permit, I can’t see why TV (Florida) allows 14 yo to drive golf carts. Many times they are on the public roads and rarely know rules of etiquette.
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Somewhat significant difference between a 4,000 pound automobile capable of traveling over 80 mph and a 500(?) pound golf cart with a top speed in the 20s.