OP was talking about Brownwood Bridge, I believe.

No bollard is necessary on the south side because that end is nowhere near automobile traffic. Any vehicle that made it to that end of the bridge would know that they were following a golf cart path and chose to continue anyway.

On the Brownwood end the entrance is at the end of a road. You would think anyone who could pass a driving test should be able to recognize that the path is too narrow to be a road but apparently that isn’t the case. The bollard helps the more confused among us from making that mistake. I wonder what happened in this case.

There must have been two incidents around the same time on March 12, 2025.

And this is an example of why we see cars on the Brownwood bridge! Too many seniors get confused and shouldn’t be driving. There is NO car part. No cars are allowed on that bridge just like the Chitty Chatty bridge.

Wasn’t that on the Morse bridge over Lake Sumter?

There was an accident on the Lake Sumter/Morse Blvd. bridge. Sounds like this incident on the Brownwood bridge is a separate issue.

To the OP: "Now I've seen it all" ?---Hang around, you'll see more.

Hold my beer. Watch this…

That was Sumter not Brownwood.

elderly, alcohol, happy hour, after sunset, what could possibly go wrong?

Two months ago a car was coming down the cart path that runs from the south end of Paradise Dr toward the bridge over US-441. The center post was not installed that day. She got down as far as the north end of the dog park but was blocked by northbound carts. Had to back out to the street.

Opposite problem- yesterday a cart driven by a teen female stopped at the foot of the bridge until no carts were coming off the bridge. Then she started up the bridge only to stop again near the top because carts were coming the opposite direction. This forced me and some other carts to have to stop on the steepest part of the bridge and wait.

Are you talking the Morse Bridge?
 

Are you talking about the Mose Bridge by Sumter landing? I saw the accident as well and was wondering what happened.

The article in the online paper that shall not be named said two golf carts sideswiped each other on the Morse Ave bridge at Lake Sumter. The southbound cart wound up in the traffic lane.

The average person in The Villages is below average. Put up a sign that says no cars allowed!

I'm going to go out a limb and suggest that a driver that can't tell the difference between a cart path and a road won't be paying much attention to a sign :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

That was the day prior ! Wednesday 3/12/2025 2 carts sideswiped each other one jumped the curb and went into traffic! We drove by cart still there with extensive front end damage 2 hurt and taken by ambulance to local hospital 2 treated on scene according to paper. There was also an incident/accident yesterday close to same spot “the treacherous bridge @Sumter “ Thursday 3/13/2025 around 3:30 pm LOTS of emergency vehicles road closed had to turn around before bridge and come down BV ! Still haven’t been able to find what happened.