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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Most of the issues caused by golf cart anccidents are because of SLOW golf cart drivers. This also is the reason for a lot of car accidents. When you get a golf cart driver going 15 mph on the straight or single digits around the curves, normal people are going to want to pass.
If you have somebody right behind you that wants to go the speed limit or faster than you, pull over and let them pass, it only takes a few seconds. Same goes for driving a car, you get slow people in the left lane that go just as slow or slower than people in the right lane and you wonder why people are on your tail/flashing brights/honking at you, move over because the people behind you are going to take chances to pass you.
I also don’t want to hear people say slow down, we are retired, no need to rush, blah blah blah. A lot of us are busy, have appointments for drs/dentists/PB/tennis/golf/whatever and need to be somewhere at a specific time and most of us don’t want to leave an hour in advance to go somewhere that should only take you 20 mins to get there.
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Bingo. Our carts are governed to max out between 20-21 MPH. Every once in a while somebody with a juiced up cart blows by us, but no big deal, I just waive them by. The much bigger, and much more frequent problem, are those that insist on driving way slower than the speed limit with no regard for the line of carts stuck behind them. Just because they have time to waste doesn’t mean the frustrated folks behind them do. And to make the situation worse, some of these folks suddenly discover where the accelerator pedal is when someone attempts to pass them. One very simple thing I have learned over the years is that I never get slowed down by someone behind me : )