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Old 10-22-2010, 07:27 AM
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I don’t know where these ‘officials’ are getting their information from but a roll bar is absolutely not a requirement of Florida law for classification as an LSV/NEV. And few of the current LSV manufacturers provide them. In fact, my Tomberlin LSV comes close to it but they call it tip over bars designed to help prevent the cart from actually rolling over onto its roof.

Secondly, the golf cart manufacturers don’t include safety belts for their carts because it would increase the cost and they would get laughed out of the industry. I mean, what golfer is going to buckle and unbuckle themselves 100 times in a round of golf.

And I agree with RussBoston that there are few true complete rollover accidents with golf carts. Just go to YouTube and search for golf cart crash and you’ll see lots of tipovers, but nary a rollover.