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Originally Posted by mac9
The problem with seat belts in a cart is that the cart has no roll bar. If the cart flips, the roof is going to crush in. Wouldn't want to be stuck in that situation. Better to be thrown from the cart than be crushed.
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From personal accounts of TV residents having seen golf cart accidents, and from the accounts published in the POA Bulletin, most cart accident victims here get thrown out of the cart and it's not a rollover. The big difference here versus typical golf cart use is that getting ejected here means NOT being thrown onto golf course turf/grass, but onto street pavement and curb concrete and then being subject to being run over by cars and trucks if thrown onto the pavement. That is far worse than being thrown onto golf course grass.
Also, here in TV, we are not driving on wet grass on hillsides and mud as golf course driving often entails, which is more conducive to rollovers. We're driving on flat city streets and paved multimodal trails. The likelihood of getting ejected into car/truck traffic is much higher here, and so is getting ejected with head split open on concrete curbing. People who know widows and widowers of that very thing are the first to say they will NOT get into a cart here without seat belts (apart from when they're playing golf).