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Old 06-23-2012, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by thekeithfan View Post
The safety of Driving down El Camino Real in a licensed golf cart is like comparing an Army foot soldier to a Tank! You are NOT safe. I suggest you look up the police reports involving cart accidents and see how many are severly, permanently injured or disabled. Do you have a right to drive there? YES! But you can't tell me your 1000 pound cart is any match when colliding with a vehicle weighing 3 to 4 times what the cart weighs! Golf carts driving down El Camino and going thru roundabouts look stupid....dangerously stupid.
By this rationale, I guess we shouldn't drive on the Interstate highways with the 90,000lb. trucks, in our 4,000lb car.

This is the Villages....Golf carts are supposed to be everywhere.