I was riding my bicycle one day and heard a woman yelling, "Can you help me?"
I stopped and saw a woman lying on the ground next to a golf cart in her driveway. I thought that she had had some kind of accident.
I went over and asked how I could help and she said that she was trying to plugged her cart into the charger. I plugged her cart in and help her off the ground. She was very over weight and in pretty poor physical condition.
I asked why she was lying on the ground in an effort to plug in her cart and she explained that she was legally blind. I then asked who drives the golf cart and she replied, "I do. I have to since they took my driver's license away."
Kids that are 14 years old and have no knowledge of the rules of the road are allowed to drive golf carts on public roads. How is this allowed? How can we hold kids, who have never studied the rules, responsible for obeying them?
Is it time to start requiring a license to operate a golf cart on public ways?
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