How to Prevent Golf Cart Accidents

Because golf carts often lack common safety equipment such as doors, windows, or seatbelts, golf cart accidents can actually be quite dangerous. Fortunately, golf cart crashes aren’t nearly as common as other vehicle accidents, such as cars and motorcycles. However, to prevent an accident and ensure your safety, we strongly recommend reading through our helpful prevention tips below. 

Avoid Rough Terrain

The Problem

While golf cart tires are perfectly equipped for traveling across golf course greens and smooth sidewalks, they aren’t prepared to handle mud, puddles, or any type of sloping hills. 

Because their tires are relatively smooth to avoid damaging grass and turf, golf carts will easily slip down steep hills or get stuck in thick mud. 

The Solution

To avoid a golf cart accident, do your best to pay very close attention to surrounding terrain, and avoid areas that your golf cart can’t handle. 

You can also upgrade your golf cart with tires specially designed to handle unique terrain if you want to explore those areas.

Avoid Bad Weather 

The Problem

Golf carts are best suited for sunny days and nice weather and are best kept in the garage when rain is in the forecast. Not only do golf cart tires lack the proper tread to travel in these conditions, but electric models could possibly short circuit if water leaks onto the battery. 

The Solutions

Golf cart accidents and malfunctions are much more likely during bad weather conditions, so we recommend waiting for conditions to improve before you even consider taking your golf cart for a ride.

For more information or to explore golf carts for sale, visit Par-Tee Time. We are a dealership located in Sun Lakes, Arizona. We also serve those in Rio Verde and Santo Verde, Arizona.