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Old 08-23-2023, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
A lot to dispute in the missing section but I'm confident others will take care of that.

In this paragraph I really wonder: Most (all?) of the cart/car accidents involve the cart pulling into the path of an automobile. Most (all?) of the injuries are due to the cart occupant being ejected from the cart. So if enforcing or lowering the speeds of the big cars will make it safer then how low do those speeds need to go? At what speed would a car need to be traveling such that it would be safe for a golf cart to pull into its path with less possibility that the occupant would be ejected?
Let's start with the posted speeds of 30 for cars and 20 for golf carts. I will assume that traffic management engineers determined these speeds to be a safe combination for the situation. However, we have no way to know since these speeds are not used or enforced. So, let's police to the existing postings without playing hypothetical.