Golf cart freeway
 

How soon will there be a very serious accident by idiots with golf carts that go 35 mph passing everyone one ! Had this happen 5 times in 3 day. Was going 19 mph and got passed

If it’s safe to do so why can’t they pass you. They are late for retirement games. I like when they pass in a down pour rain with no head lights (and thus no taillights) in the middle of the roadway and expect a vehicle to see them. It’s not being passed either add to that taking the corners at full tilt and often times on your side of the curve.

Not much that you can do about it except to drive defensively. I am more worried about the golf carts that blow through stop signs. Have been nearly hit on a few occasions.

Pretty sure a cart doesn't need to go 35mph in order to pass you when you are going 19mph.

Where did you get your cart-mounted radar gun that tells how fast other carts are going?

I personally don't care if they pass me unless of course they do it around blind curves or cut back in so close I have to hit my brakes to avoid hitting them. Just drive as defensively as you can. Unfortunately they'll eventually cause injury to someone.

Interesting. In 11 years and 29,000 miles on my golf cart, I’ve NEVER seen a cart going 35, yet that post claims 5x in 3 days. Possibly, but right now it’s failing the sniff test. Could it possibly have been going 21-22, more than fast enough to pass
19?

:BigApplause:

The lifestyle carts top speed is 12-14mph. Any cart passing them, you can hear the swoosh of wind, and never see their break light after the next curve.

Did they hit you? Did they cause you any harm or damage?
If not, let them drive their golf cart and you drive yours. No need getting all verklempt over speeding drivers. They will always exist.

The Villages Golf Cart Rules and Injuries - 2025 Golf Cart Rules For The Villages, FL


This is useful.


My golf cart has the governor on so it cannot go more than 19 MPH.

Almost every other golf cart passes us.

The quicker they pass, the better. It's wise to lift of the throttle to help get them by faster.


But it happens...

This cart passed us at a very high rate of speed same day it was reported to be responsible for a hit and run.

Huh. In 5 years and driving many hours in our golf cart, never once have we seen a golf cart doing 35. We have passed many a cart and ours only does 21 going downhill with a tailwind. Tested it using a GPS speedometer.
I find it safest to just ease up on the gas when someone wants to pass.

Exactly the same, although mine only goes 20.8 downhill with a tailwind. I have no idea why some people get their undies in a bunch because somebody passes them. Same happens on a highway. My guess is that it is a form of primitive territoriality, but I'm not a psychiatrist. They'll scream all day that they are only interested in safety, or that they are pointing out the law, but in reality, they just don't like getting passed!

Probably..

Sometimes it's like the 18 wheeler passing in the left lane @ 0.5 mph faster than the truck they are passing. As said previously, best to just lift off the throttle and let them complete the pad.

Then there's the Mario Andreti carts who pass a pedestrian or bike from the opposite direction on the left side of the road not yielding right of way to oncoming traffic.

We've had to go agricultural (go off road) more than once for those instances. Lucky golf carts are built off road (-: LOL :-)

The risk truely is getting higher on the MMP along Marsh Bend Trail. Seems many of the newer carts 4/6/8 passenger are capable of 25-30 mph running from Middleton to destinations north. Sometimes with 6-8 young people without an adult in the cart. In carts so long thatly can't stay in lane on the sharp turns.

Rant on...

Then there's the unsupervised kids. Sunday, a pair of young (9-10 yo) girls crossed McNeil without stopping in front of us on an E-bike and scooter - and almost got hit by a car exiting MBT on to McNeil. There is no gate at that entrance yet.

We made sure they were ok and followed behind them to Magnolia.

But you gotta wonder about parents letting two young girls travel alone several miles on a route along MBT across from a Federal Pennetentary and halfway house...

And this is not the first set of young children we've observed alone on that route, including some after dark...

To the Developer/employee lurkers in Middleton on here, do you know where your children are? You need to protect your beautiful children before something bad happens.

Start with the sex offender list in the area. There's quite a few hits along Warm Springs near Magnolia.

FDLE - Sexual Offender and Predator System

Cart is probably not going faster than 25PMPH. BUT, that’s 25% faster than a cart going 19MPH.
It’s like a car going 60MPH, getting passed by someone going 75MPH.

And that happens all the time - I’ve never seen a post here about speeding on the turnpike - or even Morse Blvd.

With the exception of a law suit, when they involve us in a wreck, who is suppose to enforce golf cart laws?

Everyone is in a hurry, why I don’t know, yesterday I was on Morse Blvd waiting to make a left turn into the postal station when 2 cars and a large Groome passed me in the golf cart and bike lane almost took the paint off the side of my automobile, glade there were no carts of bikes in the lane

Does anyone here own an automobile that won't go at least 90 MPH? A stock Corvette ZO6 can go 195 MPH, off the showroom floor.

The highest speed limit in the USA is 85 MPH on a 40-mile stretch of Texas State Highway 130.

Why is it legal to sell automobiles that can travel at more than double the maximum speed limit?

Wake up. I've only been in The Villages for 21 years and have seen countless carts going over thirty mph. How did I know this? They passed me while I was driving my car. Speaking the truth is best gor all.

^ This. 100%

I’ve passed cars in my 20 mph cart. They were the slugs tooling along at 15, of which I’ve seen “countless” numbers, unlike 35 mph carts, of which I’ve seen none. Interestingly, those slugs generally have no idea how slow they are, they think everyone else is speeding

any cart going more than 20 mph is SPEEDING and can get you a very expensive ticket. It can also cause injury and death. If you have questions about operating a golf cart attend the golf cart safety clinic given this month on June 18 at 9AM at the Colony Cottage Rec Center.

I don’t care if they pass me. I’ll drive like I’m supposed to. What scares me is the number of oncoming carts you meet that can’t stay in their own lane. You stay on your side I’ll stay on mine. Curves are the worst. Slow down people.

The more important question here s: why didn’t you pull off the road to let someone pass you? 19mph is not fast, it’s actually pretty slow. Almost every turn on the golf cart paths can be driven faster than 20mph. IMO, it’s the slower golf carts that pose the problem. Why is it safer to travel 200mph on the autobahn than it is to drive 70 mph here in the states? 1 of the main reasons is that slower traffic has to move over to the right lanes or get a ticket or have their license revoked. Same laws should apply here which they are but only on 3 lane hwys like i75 and i95. This should be applied to any 2 lane road here in the villages too.

This is the part that upsets me about people driving without governors, golf carts weren’t built like a Corvette to go 190 miles an hour and stop and turn on a dime, they were built to do 20 or 21. I’m sure many of us have jammed on the brakes to avoid hitting another cart or a car that didn’t see us and had the realization that we were riding in nothing but plastic if we actually collided. So I don’t appreciate the people who think it’s OK to drive faster than The Villages rules which match the equipment and path construction. that can cause harm to others if they have.

A friend of mine had her cart tipped over when a passer cut too close to her rear end and will be in rehab for months how can we say that that’s an OK thing. The driver didn’t even stop when others were rushing to aid.

Our Lifestyle cart had a top speed of 19 mph.

I love it when someone goes out of their way to prove my point. Yes, carts going 19.9 are perfectly safe and those going 20.1 are criminally negligent:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Pick up your speed.
 

If you would go 21 or 22 mph, you would keep up with the flow. Also 35 mph is exaggerated.Quit whining so much.

Heavens to mergatroid, I got passed by someone faster than me in my golf cart!
In my car, I also drive the speed limit in the passing lane on a multi-lane road. Cause no one should go faster than me. All the people understand, behind me. Makes them all happy!

There are not a lot of two-lane golf cart paths, MMPs, or diamond lanes here in the Villages. Or did you mean that there are single-lane sections of the autobahn where cars are required to pull of the shoulder and stop to allow those driving 200mph to pass?

To me, 19mph is not too slow in a cart since the cart is only supposed to be capable of 20mph max. Sure, I would be frustrated that I couldn't just hold my foot to the floor but that's the way it is on a shared path.

If you don’t slow down at turns and curves, you run the risk of hitting a pedestrian or other vehicle. The speed limit is the fastest you should be going, not how fast you are required to go. It sounds like you are one of the drivers who don’t share the multimodal path responsibly.

BAN ELECTRIC CARTS! They are the ones that can be tweaked to “go fast”, above 25mph.
Any Yami gasser, even with high speed gears, will top out about 24/25mph, if tweaked.
Plenty of speed to pass a 19 mph cart. Happens to me all the time. And I’m ok with that.

Golf cart speed
 

Agree, they are going faster than the cars on Fenney Way sometimes. Dangerous. Wont get better until they ticket.

Then there are the people who fall out of a cart doing 14 mph, hit their head, and unfortunately die. I’m thinking we all need to wear leather suits and full face helmets!

You are going slow and complain those not going slow pass you due to you going slower than them.

Slow drivers are passed by those not going slow all the time. This is called normal and expected.

Make sure not to try to block them, that is how accidents are caused.

Thats fast on a Golf Cart path.

A parking lot is a shared resource, so it's OK to park sideways and take up three spots?
The bleachers at Brownwood are a shared resource, so it's OK to lie down on them?
On Florida highways posted over 60, it's actually a law that a vehicle in the left lane MUST move over for faster traffic---EVEN IF that traffic is "speeding"---simply because no driver is there to enforce the law or to force their speed on others. Too bad that isn't the law on every road.

You see, sharing is a two-way street (no pun intended :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:)

Oh, how true is that!!!!

There would need to be a dozen or so different max speed cars in the US...which then means a 70mph limited car from PA cannot go the speed limit in Texas

This will last until all those doing 35 (?) destroy themselves or take over. It's a Darwin thing.