Dangerous / Stupidity Goes Hand & Hand
 

Another classic, dangerous & stupid move by a golf cart operator today. My husband and I were in the left lane stopped at the red light leaving Polo Ridge gate this morning. A four passenger red golf cart came up behind us, pulled out into the right lane to go around us and pulled in front of us to turn left onto the golf cart path rather than waiting for our stop light to turn green. I just don't understand how & why some people completely disregard the rules of the road.

Yes, you do see some mighty dumb moves like that. There are some people who would have taken off after that cart and tried to catch them to "teach them a lesson" about golf cart safety. Glad you did not try anything like that.

Just watch out for those snowbirds! Mostly very nice people but very low on golf cart operational skills!!

More likely renters than Snowbirds. Most regular Snowbirds have experience with golf cart. Watch out for new renters!

Not a day goes by without a wacky golf cart story. Yesterday, I came face to face with a golf cart going the wrong way in the round-about at the south end of Sumter Landing.:pray:

Hurry
 

You have to be in a hurry at our age. Need to get everything done, because you might die at any moment. :what:

Especially if you go the wrong way in a roundabout!

Wow!!!!!!! I sometimes wish, that no carts be in the roundabouts!!! All we can do is be defensive and alert.

Think the snowbirds are just fine driving their carts. So many drive back and forth from their other homes,that they still have good driving skills.Plus they might be a little younger. The ones that scare me,are the ones who live here year round.Tend to be a little older and do not have sharp driving skills.Very set in their ways. Next the renters,they do not know their way around. Full time residents for sure No.1

We have thousands of overworked Guardian Angels here in The Villages.
 

We all have our suspicions about WHO and WHAT group and WHERE they come from that are the worst drivers of both golf carts and regular cars. I think the prize goes to all ages and all frequency of inhabitants. We read on here that younger villagers are blaming older villagers or full timers blaming snowbirds, or older villagers blaming younger ones BUT NONE of us really know.

Here is what I do when I see bad driving. I tell my Sweetie about it and I tell him WHO I think it was and he does the same back to me.

Maybe one of these days we will have the demographics of the bad drivers documented. Right now we are relying on Darwins Theory to stay alive around here. So BE careful out there. The more of us there are here at the same time,the more BAD driving habits we see and the more we hear the sirens.

I am trying not to be one of the bad drivers or one of the statistics and I know you are too.....AND for the uninformed or illiterate: STOP signs are a definite rule, NOT a suggestion.

Be safe. I like all of your dear faces.

From my post,I was not blaming anyone of the groups that I mentioned.Just in "my" opinion what "I " thought.

A bunch of cars were backed up on Buena Vista yesterday, and going around a slow vehicle. Turned out to be a driver in a Street Legal golf cart, going about 20 mph, busy talking on his cell phone. Of course on BV, cars are going 35 - 40 mph. Boy, if you're going to putz along at 20 mph, and be on the phone and not paying attention, get on the recreational trails.

I was not the best of golf cart drivers when trying to get to the Sumter County Sheriff's Annex to pick up an Absentee Ballot and then take it home detouring through Southern Trace Shopping Center to pick up Dark Shadows at Publix's Redbox. There seemed to be many opportunities for wrong turns in golf carts around Saddlebrook and Polo Ridge.

I will have a little more compassion now for golf cart drivers not exactly knowing what they are doing considering all the U-turns I had to do yesterday.

Mainly, because I do not golf and am unfamiliar with just where the golf cart crossings are and are not.

And, so many golf cart drivers are in such a hurry out there.

is there a golf cart driving school??? We are closing NOV 16th and I have never driven a cart.. we have been to TV 3-4 times and I still cringe at the roaundabouts and hope I don't get rear ended cause I stop when I shouldn't...

This careless golf cart driver. did they have the footprints of a fulltime resident? Perhaps a snowbird or even a renter? Ahh Watson, no they were the footprints of a gigantic hound..... Sherlock Holmes

We hear this over and over again. Is it time for a "Villages Golf Cart License" and mandatory training in order to receive it?