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Originally Posted by Happydaz
Golf carts are the most dangerous thing on the multi modal paths and diamond lanes on the roads. I have been here for over ten years and there have been a number of fatalities of walkers and bicyclists caused by golf cart drivers. Walkers and bicyclists have caused no fatalities yet everyone blames them. We need to focus more on the golf cart drivers. They need to slow down and not pass on blind curves. This is a retirement community. People are out exercising and enjoying themselves so try to be more polite and not look at everyone going slower than you are as an obstacle. The MMP’s are not golf cart highways they are paths for joggers, walkers, bicyclists, roller bladers and yes, golf carters. Slow down and enjoy the beauty of The Villages. If you need to get somewhere fast take your car.
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Good points.
An example of what is being dealt with on the MMPs: A couple of years ago we came up on the back of a cart traveling at barely walking speed. When we got close enough we saw one of those white canes used by sight-handicapped folks strapped to the back of the cart. True story.
An extreme example, granted; but the point is that there are people tooling around in carts that do not qualify for driver's licenses, or who have had theirs taken for whatever infraction. Golf carts weigh in the neighborhood of 800 lbs. to over half a ton. So--quick calculation: a 1,000 lb. cart moving at 20 mph is carrying over six TONS of kinetic energy (13,371.72 ft. lbs. to be exact). Put another way, that is roughly the same amount of splat suffered by a 180 lb. person falling off a six-story building. No thank you.
You can't be too cautious.