13,000 golf cart injuries: study

And that's just among Americans!    Hey you politicians.  Maybe you should start pushing for golf cart driving tests, golf cart licenses and golf cart insurance.   How about vision tests, physical coordination tests and, most of all, stupid tests?  Just a  suggestion.

[/ql="http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=fae0c6a0-7f29-42f3-8508-f68ee639ec77"]The booming love affair between golfers and their carts is leading to injuries from accidents not just on the fairway, but on public streets, in the shady lanes of gated and retirement communities, on the farm and even while buzzing around hospitals and airports.

 
According to a new U.S. study, the number of golf cart-related injures among Americans has more than doubled during the past 17 years with more than 13,000 injuries reported in 2006.
 
Victims "are either falling out of them, or the carts are overturning while they're in it and they're being crushed by the golf cart," says Lara McKenzie, an investigator with the Centre for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
 
"There were a number of people who jumped from the cart, or were struck by a cart or run over by a cart. And oftentimes, a body part, like an arm or a leg, gets pinched from the cart running into something."
 
Her team's study, published this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, shows most of the accidents occurred at golf courses and sports arenas. But 15 per cent occurred on streets and another 15 per cent around a home or farm.[/q]