Golf carts are more used not only on golf courses. You are more and more homeowners in private gated communities, retirement communities, and in the locations property. Many of these golf carts vaguely resemble a traditional golf cart and are lifted, extremely fast and increasingly dangerous.

You can now reach speeds of up to 60 miles an hour and can also travel up to 40 miles on a single charge. These golf carts are even street legal. While golf carts now to move at speeds equivalent with motor vehicles and share the same roads adapted who developed their safety equipment not at a similar pace.

The increase in the use, speed and power of golf carts led a increase in the Georgia Golf Cart accidents, serious injuries and even deaths can result. Those who do not have a valid driver license frequently drive of golf carts. They are also not all federal regulations are so they are equipped not with any security features. Golf carts lack seat belts, airbags, roll bars, stability mechanisms and other safety equipment often to other vehicles found. The most common accidents with golf carts are rollovers, where passengers or the driver of the vehicle.

For example, landed five Augusta high school girls in the hospital after a golf cart accident. One of the girls suffered a skull fracture and a broken pelvis. The girls were driving the golf cart on a neighborhood street when it tipped over. The sheriff's Office allows in Columbia County Georgia, where the accident occurred, operate golf carts on streets, when the posted speed is less than 35 miles per hour. The law requires that the golf cart have the person a valid driver's license or a learner permit, as well as the presence of someone 21 or older in the shopping cart. Be instituted as the driver in the accident Augusta was only 15 years old, is to go with it without a license.

In North Carolina last summer three young age 11, 8 and 6 injured when she drove by a semi-trailer truck parked in many maintenance at a country club. The 11-year-old boy's injuries were life threatening. This crashes to point out the potential dangers of children able to golf carts, especially on roads serve the city. This is especially true if statistics show that 40% of the 13,000 golf cart accidents per year include children under the age of 16. Each city in Georgia is their own age requirements for operators of golf carts.

While young inexperienced operators are a common cause of golf cart accidents, there are other common causes of golf cart accidents. One which is frequently causes drink and drive a golf cart, especially when a golf cart at high speeds. Golf carts often rollover on sharp curves at high speed carried out if the driver is impaired judgment. This risk of rollover accidents increased, if golf carts of change lift kits, large off-road tires and similar adjustments that can make them unstable and top-heavy. A number of parties can for violations of a golf cart suffered by the driver or passengers including be responsible:

Riders are SpeedingIntoxicated golf cart of OperatorsManufacturers defective Golf CartsShops providing unsafe changes or defective PartsDrunk drivers of vehicles, which conflict with Golf CartsPublic entities that make unsafe Street and RoadwaysDistracted driver of golf carts or other motor VehiclesOwners of golf carts, which entrust them with inexperienced, unlicensed or unsafe drivers

If you love you or someone in a golf cart accident suffered, our Georgia Golf Cart accident lawyers carefully examine the facts and circumstances of accidents involving our customers whether negligence of a driver or defective in the golf cart product. Our Georgia Golf Cart accident lawyers are required of the legal service consistent with the highest standards of the legal profession. If you have involved in golf cart accident in a Georgia, you can be eligible for compensation for the losses, that you are suffering from.

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