Tips for Preventing Golf Cart Accidents

Despite what you may think, golf cart accidents are not a rare occurrence. Because these vehicles are often driven off-road, and drivers rarely have a set of laws or driving regulations to follow, golf cart accidents are extremely common. To ensure the safety of you, your passengers, and your golf cart, we’ve written up a few helpful driving tips below to help you avoid a serious golf cart accident.

Stay Inside the Golf Cart 

While golf carts don’t often include seatbelts or doors, this isn’t an invitation to stick hands, feet, or other extremities outside of the cart. In fact, you want to ensure that you and all of your passengers are safely seated in your golf cart at all times as you drive. Golf carts are typically pretty small vehicles,  and one person leaning too far out of the vehicle is sometimes all it takes to unbalance the cart and result in an accident 

Keep an Eye on Your Surroundings 

When we tell you to keep an eye on your surroundings, we don’t just mean watching out for pedestrians on nearby obstacles— although you don’t want to forget to watch out for those either. Instead, we mean to keep an eye on the terrain you’re traveling in. Golf carts aren’t equipped to handle sloping or uneven ground, and will often slip over or get stuck in large puddles of mud and water. To avoid getting stuck, or flipping your vehicle over, be sure to always pay close attention to where you’re driving. 

If your golf cart has been damaged in a golf cart accident, we want to encourage you to visit us here at Richmond Equipment. Our on-site service center here in Richmond, Texas will have no trouble repairing and maintaining your golf cart, so you’re back on golfing greens in no time at all! We also proudly serve the nearby cities of Houston and Rosenberg, Texas, and offer a wide variety of golf cart parts and accessories for sale.