Marauder Blue 6 said:

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TFAAGG said:

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Honestly…they should have an age limit on driving ATVs and UTVs. And, there should be a penalty on parents (same way we are going with gun / shooting legislation).

Yes, I know this sounds extreme but this happens what too much.

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Add golf carts to the list

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Golf carts are legal on streets with speed limits up to 35 MPH in my town. Last week a couple was taking theirs to the grocery store on a busy street and the man was ejected and the cart ran over him, killing him.

Only time I have ever used a tourniquet was a side by side roll over. Young lady's arm was partially amputated just past the elbow after the cage rolled on her arm. I believe the arm was able to be saved after she was lifeflighted. Found out later there were 4 or 5 other kids in the vehicle also.

wareagle044 said:

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You've got to be 16 with a license and have insurance plus a license plate on your golf cart to legally operate in Texas on roads. I think mirrors and a slow moving vehicle marker on the back are required as well.

Our kids Polaris is locked in at 10 mph. I like having that control. Can also set it to not start unless they're wearing a helmet with the sensor. If the seatbelts aren't fastened it won't go over 5 mph. I wish they had that option on the larger models for when my kids are older

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You do not need insurance and a license plate. Just need to be 16+ and on a road 35 MPH and under.

wareagle044 said:

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You've got to be 16 with a license and have insurance plus a license plate on your golf cart to legally operate in Texas on roads. I think mirrors and a slow moving vehicle marker on the back are required as well.

Our kids Polaris is locked in at 10 mph. I like having that control. Can also set it to not start unless they're wearing a helmet with the sensor. If the seatbelts aren't fastened it won't go over 5 mph. I wish they had that option on the larger models for when my kids are older

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Need to add one of those inflatable bike suits as well.

I'm only half kidding. But honestly, the 10mph sounds like a great thing until reality sets in and you now have a super slow moving vehicle on a street with faster moving vehicles - that slow moving vehicle is now a traffic liability and far more susceptible to being struck by another vehicle than if it were able to go posted speeds.*

*assuming you are talking about driving on public roads

The biggest thing with kids and UTV's, at least for neighborhood driving, that i've seen in my neighborhood is lights - either the UTV has zero lights at all and at dusk and dark they are hard to see or they drive around with every single light bar on and blind the hell out of every other driver on the road. Second thing is when you have a bunch of younger kids tooling around being...well, kids.

Ducks4brkfast said:

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wareagle044 said:

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You've got to be 16 with a license and have insurance plus a license plate on your golf cart to legally operate in Texas on roads. I think mirrors and a slow moving vehicle marker on the back are required as well.

Our kids Polaris is locked in at 10 mph. I like having that control. Can also set it to not start unless they're wearing a helmet with the sensor. If the seatbelts aren't fastened it won't go over 5 mph. I wish they had that option on the larger models for when my kids are older

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You do not need insurance and a license plate. Just need to be 16+ and on a road 35 MPH and under.

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No insurance, but in most cases a license plate (or sticker really) is required. I think last time I looked it was $15 or something like that. Not sure I've ever actually seen one though on any of the buggies that cruise my neighborhood, including mine.

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The TxDMV is required to title off-highway vehicles (ATVs, ROVs, UTVs, and Sand Rails), but these vehicles are not eligible for registration. Off-highway vehicles are eligible to receive an Off-Highway Vehicle license plate, which may be obtained from your county tax assessor-collector's office.

ATVs, ROVs, UTVs and Sand Rails with an Off-Highway Vehicle license plate may be operated on roads in the following situations:

• In a master planned community with a uniform set of restrictive covenants and a county or municipality-approved plat
• On a road with a posted speed limit of not more than 35 mph, during the daytime and not more than two miles from the location where it is usually parked for transportation to and from a golf course
• To cross intersections, including a road or street that has a posted speed limit of more than 35 mph.

Additionally, cities and certain counties may authorize operation of ATVs, ROVs, UTVs, and Sand Rails on roads within the boundaries of the city or within unincorporated areas of certain counties. The ATV, ROV, UTV and Sand Rail must display an Off-Highway Vehicle license plate when operated on roads authorized by the city or county. Operation may be authorized only on roads with a speed limit of 35 mph or less. If operated on the roads at a speed of 25 mph or less, an ATV, ROV, UTV and Sand Rail is required to display a slow-moving vehicle emblem.

ATVs, ROVs, UTVs and Sand Rails may be operated on roads without the issuance of a license plate if the vehicle is:

• Owned by a state, county, or municipality and operated on a public beach or highway to maintain public safety and welfare
• Operated by a farmer or a rancher during the daytime and traveling no more than 25 miles from the point of origin to the destination and used in connection with the production, cultivation, harvesting, etc., of agricultural products*
• Operated by a public utility worker during the daytime for utility work and traveling no more than 25 miles from the point of origin to the destination*
• Operated by a law enforcement officer, or other person who provides firefighting, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services, and traveling no more than 10 miles from the point of origin to the destination*.

*ATVs, ROVs, UTVs and Sand Rails operated on a road without an Off-Highway Vehicle license plate require a triangular orange flag (slow moving emblem) mounted to the back of the vehicle at least six feet above ground level and the vehicle's headlights and taillights to be illuminated.

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Golf carts have different regs, because the state can't just make anything simple and uniform.

Cameron requires license and insurance in addition to the license plate on golf carts. All our side by sides have off-highway plates and I can use them on the road within 25 miles I think for Ag purposes. I'll drive ours through neighborhood ti our property to check the fence line then let the kids rip on it for a bit there before heading back home.

Horrible and I am praying for the families.

I've had multiple "close calls" in just our cookie-cutter suburban neighborhood. I do want to applaud a young mom last night who was walking her two little kids. It gets dark so quickly, and I'm turning in and about to park in the driveway in the front of our house, I see blinking lights.

The mom and her two little kids were passing from behind a car and I didn't see them, sans the blinking light necklaces they were wearing. Like you'd see at a concert or rave or something. Little snap-together lights. She obviously saw and heard my truck, and held the kids back. I got out and told her how smart it was to have all three of them wearing lights....which the kids took as just play time, but I didn't see them at all, and had a kid decided to run forward, I would not have seen them.

Good on you mom....

normaleagle05 said:

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Very sad and way too common.

I knew a lady who lost her 10 year old when he tried to use a road embankment as a jump ramp and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.

First girl I dated in high school had matching scars in the crooks of her elbows from where she ran a 4-wheeler into a barbed wire fence and went over the handlebars, but caught the fence with both arms. That easily could've gone very differently.

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Hope you didn't go to Bastrop High because that means you probably dated my mom

Exact same thing happened to her

i have a mule trans 4010. we like to drive to town and around a 6 mile loop by house. sometimes i really wish it went faster because it is slow. but then i think about my kids driving it occasionally and i just accept that it is slow and reliable and is a work tool mainly. there have been several deaths and serious injuries around crawford and mcgregor on these things.

Every time one of these threads gets posted, I remember how lucky I have been personally with a four wheeler accident. I grew up in East Texas in the middle of the Davy Crockett National Forest and at some point before we could drive (I'm not sure exactly how old I was but somewhere between 13 and 16), and the national forest was our playground to explore and hunt. Well at some point my teenage girlfriend decided to let me drive her four wheeler with her on it, which I was unqualified to do, and at some point in the day I got extra cocky and flipped it with the two of us being thrown off it. I don't think I was even aware they had seat belts? Well, we survived, but I broke my arm somehow. Naturally, I couldn't tell my mom what happened, so I just hid it from her. That was the smart thing to do, right? So about two weeks later, my mom (who was also a teacher at my high school which meant I was around her a lot) confronted me and said, "So when were you going to tell me?" I looked at her and said, "What are you talking about?" Bright response, right? She went from slighlty annoyed/a little angry to gimping up her arm and making a face that said, "Jamie is an idiot" all at once. Lots of lessons to be learned there. Don't drive vehicles unless you can be responsible, testosterone is a hell of a drug, don't lie to your parents, and sometimes, broken bones don't need to be reset, which is cool.

This one hits close to home. Son had a similar incident about 10 years ago at a ranch birthday party that we weren't at. Almost lost his leg in a crush injury - fasciotomy / skin graft - happy it wasn't worse.

We live in SA and folks go down our street pretty fast sometimes due to the lack of stop signs. Some kids down the street are riding very small motorbikes and other electric "things" around the street unsupervised. My gut says it's not going to end well.

I grew up with a dirt bike and a lot of freedom living in the country and did some dumb things. But also had the responsibility of growing out in the country and working / chores / and other "stuff" that I don't think kids get nowadays.

I think boys "collective intelligence" goes down the more young boys you put together…..that probably doesn't change till the mid-20s.

The phrase "two heads are better than one" definitely has exceptions