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Originally Posted by pooh

I realize she didn't say roads and I stated that the law is for carts on Florida roads....but if you look at the definition of what a golf cart is here.......

Is there a specific law for the paths? Haven't found one yet, but did find a report about the number of accidents north of 466 involving carts. Have to look specifically at where the accidents happened. The report stated a three year period, 2006 to 2009.

Honestly, if someone is driving their cart at 25 mph on the cart path and cause an injury to me or any of those riding in my cart because of their speed, I'd take legal action against them. If they have this need for speed, get a street legal cart and drive it on the roads. Personally, it's not something I'd want to do....cars are much heavier than any street legal cart.

If I can't find a specific law regarding the speed on the multimodal paths, then there should be something specific about it since those paths are used by many, including walkers and joggers.

Back to searching.

I'm searching too and I agree with you that there should be a posted speed limit on the multi-modal trails, there is one on the bridge on Morse but I have not found any other posted speed limits. I know most if not all of the neighborhoods south of 466 have a posted speed limit of 15mph.

I have read several post where it is recommended to use common sense, my common sense is I don't believe it is safe to drive a vehicle designed to go 14mph per hour 25mph. It is obvious from the number of post that condone exceeding the speed that defines a golf cart as a golf cart that my common sense and theirs are very different.

I feel fortunate that Florida Law allows us to drive 19.8 in our golf carts and don't want to lose that privilege.