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Old 08-21-2011, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter View Post
As reported in the Daily Sun Saturday Aug 19. Lt. Nehemiah Wolfe(Sumter County sherriffs office) reported 175 citations in the Sumter county portion of TV in a recent 30 day period. That included 13 for golf cart operators for violations such as no vehicle registration - meaning that the golf operator had modified the cart to exceed the manufacturer's top speed of 19 MPH, which makes it a vehicle that must be registered and operated by a licensed and insured driver.
Wolfe went on to say, enforcement efforts had specifically been intensified in the villages of St. Charles, Pennecamp and Buttonwood, where complains had been received and traffic incidents had been reported.
And that is where the deaths occurred in golf cart accidents too.
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