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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
The info wasn't necessarily from this forum. From time to time someone will post a link to a story about a cart accident.
I didn't have any issue with you being the messenger either. I was just stating my opinion about seat belts in carts. This is a forum, that is what we do  . I apologize if it seemed personal. |
It did seem personal. As I said in a previous post, that's the one problem with e-communication. In a face-to-face conversation we can easily understand what the other person means. It's easy to misunderstand when reading it in a forum such as this. I apologize for jumping to conclusions (a flaw my wife constantly reminds me of).
The Sumter county police officer at the safety seminar said they have about 1 accident per month with golf carts, and most of them require an airlift. He said there are usually 2 types of injuries. One is from being thrown out of the cart because the driver took a turn too fast and the other usually is the result of curbing one of the front tires, causing the cart to flip over. If you hit a curb while driving flat out at around 20mph, it causes the cart to swing sideways and flip over. Seat belts would help in the first but could cause more severe injuries in the second. He also said the best thing for us to do when driving a cart is not get tanked up at the squares and then drive home in our carts, which is when most of the accidents tend to happen.