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Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets

April 27, 2009

Have any ideas on how to improve materials engineering for golf carts? They’re a great candidate for a new approach because of skyrocketing accidents. Half of golf cart injuries occur on streets or residential property, and there was a surge in golf cart use when gas prices soared last year. One retiree bought a 20-year-old cart for $300 that can go 20 miles on a 10-hour charge. Twenty-six states allow use of golf carts on local streets. Some states require hazard signs on the back, not unlike the bright signs on the back of Amish buggies. A study by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said about 1,000 Americans suffer injuries monthly due to golf cart accidents. Male teenagers and people over 80 had the highest injury rates. A study by the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, said annual injury rates for golf carts increased 130 percent in a recent 16-year period.

Posted by Doug Smock on April 27, 2009 | Comments (14)

April 29, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
Ophelia Fannie commented:

All of you all are full of hot air. The reason for the boost is the reduce slow play. Courses will be able to have more players on the course on any given day. Excuse me, it's my turn to putt.


April 28, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
thr commented:

The problem is not a materials problem, it's a marketing problem. When you take technology designed for alert, fit astronauts motivated to deal with the rigors of outer space and sell it to drunken, fat golfers too lazy to deal with a manicured fairway...BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.


April 28, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
ZeroEmissions commented:

Skyrockets were thought to be an alternative energy source, but instead contribute to Asthma since toxic particulate matter increases significantly. So the title should have said "lung injuries soar".


April 28, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
DMO commented:

Engineers don't read instructions, so why should they read the blurb at the beginning that explains it's the accidents that are skyrocketing and not the electric golf carts. I must admit I clicked on the link because I thought it was the golf carts using skyrockets. Just had to see how high they went and what kind of injuries were sustained. More power!!!!


April 28, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
To golf, is to drink commented:

The country club put the skyrockets on each cart to increase revenue. Now when a patron on the course desires a drink they only need to fire a skyrocket and the Bar Cart comes flying to that location.


April 28, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
Minnesnowtan commented:

And the rockets red glare, Golf Carts bursting in air....


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
havasukirk commented:

The use of the skyrocket is to save from wear and tear on the fairways. By using the skyrocket it lifts the golfcart so it goes not flatten the grass. Geeeeeez, didn't anybody know this


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
prof2 commented:

What do they use the skyrockets for, Holes in 1?


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
Steve Bepko commented:

Hopefully they'll use the skyrockets to speed up play... in my dreams


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
Zack Diggerhole commented:

Are they using there seat belts before hitting the thrusters?


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
Robert Jigglesworth commented:

I believe the injury is sustained at the end of the skyrocket's thrust sequence when the large bang occurs.


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
gearcase commented:

I saw my teenage son drive a golf cart. I understand completely.


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
CDH commented:

I love it!


April 27, 2009
In response to: Injuries Soar as Electric Golf Cart Use Skyrockets
Jonathan Williams commented:

I can imagine that injuries would soar as electric golf carts use skyrockets. But, what are the skyrockets used for on golf carts. Is it for boost acceleration to make it to the green? Or maybe to get back to the clubhouse before the bar closes? Other than powder burns, what sorts of injuries do the operators sustain? Hearing loss perhaps?

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