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Originally Posted by gryoung
If you live here long enough you'll see cars driving in the golf cart lane but that's not what's been suggested earler. The suggestion is that when a vehicle plans to make a right turn, that by partially blocking the golf cart lane you insure that the golf cart can't possibly slip past you on the right. You protect yourself and more importantly the golf cart. Isn't' that really what's important?
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Lt. Nehemiah Wolfe, Sumter County Sherriff's Office was the guest speaker last evening at the March POA meeting. He covered crime and traffic issues in the Villages. One of his comments validated my earlier post. I believe I'm quoting him accurately. "If a motorist was planning to turn right, neither I, nor one of the deputies would give a motorist a citation if within 50-75 feet before an intersection, after checking to make sure that it was safe to do so, pulled into the golf cart lane either partially or totally to block a golf cart from coming up into your blind spot...There's nothing in FL statutes that says this, but it's just plain common sense to avoid an accident where a golf cart might pass a vehicle on the right." He also said in another comment that by FL statute golf carts traveling in their lane going straight would have priority over a vehicle making a right turn. Again, he said use common sense. Do you want to be safe or dead right?
Lt. Wolfe was both entertaining and instructive in his remarks.