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Do golf carts have seat belts?
Searching images, I see very few with seat belts.
This website suggests you must have them, if top speed is over 20: https://streetlegalgolfcartrentals.c...ar-a-seatbelt/ (During our Lifestyle Visit, we did not have belts.) |
Some carts have them and others do not. We do not have them on either of our carts. When buying new if they are not already installed it is easy to have them put in. They certainly are not required and the speed limit is 20 mph.
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The multi modal paths are not considered streets so no need for street legal outfitting including the seat belts, license plate and or slow moving vehicle sign, etc as shown in the video link you provided. Seeing at least one post today about people passing other carts while others are oncoming you might want them, LOL
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In Florida, golf carts cannot exceed 20mph and do not require seat belts.
If the vehicle can exceed 20mph but not 25mph then it is considered to be a Low Speed Vehicle (LSV). Certain safety equipment is required for an LSV which may include seat belts. If the vehicle can exceed 25mph then it falls into a different category. Most golf carts do not have seat belts but many do. Some drivers would not operate one without seat belts. Many golf cart fatalities result from the driver being ejected from the cart and hitting their head - something a seat belt might prevent. |
I have them in my Quitech, I think they were a $100 option....I don't always use them, but I'm glad they are there. My wife always buckles up.
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Therefore, traffic laws including stop signs, speed limits, & seat belt laws, on the multi-modal paths are not enforceable. |
Do golf carts have seat belts?
It should be mandatory, same with any powered vehicle. Also, motor cyclists, and bicyclists, should also be made to wear helmets. It protects the dumbos from themselves! |
I recommend seat belts
Whether they are required or not, I recommend seat belts. There are many bad drivers out there. I have had several close calls where I had to brake hard or swerve to avoid an accident caused by someone else. Even at 15mph if you collide or roll over and hit your head or get your arm smashed it is going to hurt. I didn't wear them at first, but after so many incidents I do now and ask my passenger to do so also. I also put the arm rest down when not on the golf course. This helps to hold you in place if you swerve hard, even by mistake. Good Luck and HAVE FUN!
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Have them but only use on a long ride. Short ride and definitely not on the course we don’t use them.
However one of our neighbor had a disabled adult, that fell out of cart sitting on the golf course. Serious issues from the fall, seatbelt would have solved that. Can’t quote but you will see many seatbelts not used, my guess is that drove a car in their youth without why have them in a cart |
Seat belts in golf carts…..they should be standard equipment….people are careless. Have always been, will always be.
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I don't drive farther than our mail box without a seat belt. Too many distracted drivers here.
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Our cart didn't have seat belts when we bought it, but Amazon has one-size-fits-most seat belt kits (I think I paid $45) and a half hour with a drill and a wrench did the trick. We always wear them when traveling in the cart. |
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They are not required, but I won't go anywhere without using them. You can have them installed if you don't have them, a wise move.
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My husband's Yamaha doesn't have them. My Club Car does. I use mine. Too many cart drivers have carts because they lost their license to drive a car. If their family/doctor/the state can't trust them behind the wheel of a car, then I think I'm justified in wanting extra caution, knowing that those same people are behind the wheel of a golf cart.
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Most comments refer to the driver. At least the driver has the steering wheel but not much for passengers to hang on. More important is the passengers. A fall results in hitting your head. A quick left turn ejected a friend. Caught my wife asleep which is a sure way to fall out. I immediately installed seat belts. Might even be a liability risk.
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Just cause they are there don’t mean they will use them. Some people won’t use seat belts in cars cause the rug their shoulders or pinch their bellies. And no I am NOT one of them, but know few that don’t. |
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My best friend's wife rolled their golf cart and fortunately had belts.
Immediately thereafter, I had them installed in my 10 years old Yamaha. |
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There was a story in the Villages News a couple of days ago about two people in a golf cart without seatbelts who hit a car and got head injuries because they went through the golf cart wind shield as a result of the crash. 20 mph sounds slow but when you hit something solid or moving at the right angle your goft cart can be very dangerous without seat belts. On another note, we also hear the story of the man and wife leaving Brownwood drunk and the husband makes a turn too sharp and the wife is ejected from the cart becasue there were no seat belts only to hit her head and die or get some other serious injury. And using the arm rest to keep you in the cart will not work either. That will snap like a toothpick during a very sharp turn or a collision. |
people die in golf cart accidents. This is a no brainer. Do you want to live or die?
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Can be added and new option there have been people that flipped the cart due to speed and curb and hit head to get brain damage
Going downhill 20 hit breaks fast the cart gets squirrely and flips I friend broke his arm |
Newton's laws are enforced everywhere. If your cart does not have them, it would be smart to install them and use them.
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Unless there is a memorandum of agreement in place between the owner, in this case the Villages, and the policing agency wherein the owner agrees to allow the policing agency access for the purpose of enforcement.
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Why wouldn't you want seatbelts in a vehicle with basically no protection? Our golf carts don't move until everyone is buckled. Read the accidents where occupant(s) are thrown out.
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We have seat belts in both of our carts, and wouldn't think of not using them. I have personal knowledge of 4 golf cart wrecks where the driver and passenger were not wearing seat belts. These 4 crashes had the following in common: 1. All were single cart crashes involving colliding with a fixed object. 2. All were relatively slow speed crashes, well under 20mpn. 3. All involved the driver and/or passenger being ejected from the golf cart. 4. All resulted in serious head trauma to the victim, requiring hospitalization.
There are no doubt countless other examples. We are all adults here, and certainly free to make our own choices. I choose being safe. |
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Also, there is a difference between capable of more than 20 mph and doing more than 20 mph. E.g. going downhill capable of 20 mph and doing 23 mph. |
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From the Florida Statutes (emphasis added): Section 316: GOLF CART.—A motor vehicle designed and manufactured for operation on a golf course for sporting or recreational purposes. Section 320: “Golf cart” means a motor vehicle that is designed and manufactured for operation on a golf course for sporting or recreational purposes and that is not capable of exceeding speeds of 20 miles per hour. “Low-speed vehicle” means any four-wheeled vehicle whose top speed is greater than 20 miles per hour but not greater than 25 miles per hour, including, but not limited to, neighborhood electric vehicles. From a July 2010 Memorandum from District Council to the District Manager concerning Multi-Modal Path usage: Although, a golf cart can be made "street legal" upon meeting certain statutory operational and safety requirements allowing it be operated upon certain public roads it is my opinion that a street legal golf cart is still a "golf cart" for purposes of the D.O.s and is authorized by the D.O.s to utilize the paths. The D.O.s expressly allow golf carts on the districts' paths and do not make a distinction between street legal and non-street legal. And In view of the forgoing, a strong argument and fair interpretation of the intent of the D.O.s is that LS V's are a type of vehicle that fit within the definition of "golf cart" for purposes of establishing the permitted uses of the multi-modal paths. |
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If the device you drive goes more than 20 mph, it is not a golf cart, but is a Low Speed Vehicle and you need a lot more than seatbelts to be “street legal”. Ask any Sheriff’s deputy. |
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