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Originally Posted by Raymond
With all do respect, does that mean you don't care about the law or do you just think golf cards and you are above the law?
Here something to read:
The research, triggered by doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham after treating several serious golf cart related accidents, studied emergency room databases from 2002 to 2005. Results suggest that during that time span, about 48,000 golf cart accidents took place nationwide, injuring roughly 1,000 Americans a month. Research also revealed that an estimated 50% of the accidents happened on the golf course, while the other half generally occurred at homes, on streets and other public property. Young males between the ages of 10 and 19, as well as men 80 and up, were found to have the highest injury rates in these accidents. For those accidents on the golf course, it is speculated that alcohol often plays a primary factor in the cause of collisions.
http://www.tampastpetersburginjuryla...golf-cart.html
Alcohol related accidents are on the rise, doesn't matter if with a car or a golf card. And everybody with alcohol behind the wheel should go to jail. I don't care about the convenient of peoples above the law; it is to protect the other innocent people from drunken driving peoples. |
If you did a search for ATV's, pleasure boats automobiles, planes, trains, etc
you would get the same sort of statistics. There seems to be some sort of contradiction. Cited are florida Statute defining a golf cart as a motor vehicle, yet we are told that if speeding (i.e. going over 19.9 mph) is prima facie evidenced that a golf cart once categorized as not being a motor vehicle is now a motor vehicle and hence you are fined $250 plus the cost to ave a mechanic changes to prevent said golf cart from reaching speeds above the 19.9. This is because we have no posted speed limits for golf carts on cartpaths and hence an officer can't give you a ticket for speeding.
As to the original post in this thread the information provided was that two people were sitting in their cart with open containers at LSL. Following that original post members have shared information they believed relevent to this thread. The focus to all of this should be "what is the difference between sitting in your cart with an open container and/or sitting at a table or on the curb with an open container. It is a common practice for many residents to drive their carts to the square and utilizing them as a place to sit and enjoy the activities perhaps because thee is little or no seating available or perhaps because of choice. Unless and until someone provides information that these residents were doing more than just that I am left with the impression that it may not be advisable to drink at the squares. This then begs the question as to why the district/Developer would allow eateries/ vendors to sell alcohol? As stated earlier it also is confusing as to what "status" Florida Law really views golf carts to be defined.
I would welcome further clarification of the opinions rendered here