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SAN MARCOS, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Cart Mart, Inc., a leading distributor of Golf, Transportation and Industrial Vehicles, announces the acquisition of Pacific Golf Cars (PGC) of Escondido, California. This merger enables Cart Mart the ability to exclusively distribute 4 of 5 leading industry brands including Yamaha, Club Car, Fairplay and Taylor-Dunn brand vehicles. "This acquisition creates a unique opportunity for our customers, when you combine the resources and experience of...

Police in Wisconsin said they arrested a man who drunkenly tried to drive 40 miles home in a pilfered golf cart after being ditched by a group of uncles. Investigators said the 47-year-old man had empty beers in the golf cart when he was pulled over Saturday while driving on southbound state Highway 175 and he told a Washington County sheriff's deputy he was trying to drive home to Milwaukee after being abandoned by his uncles at Kettle Hills Golf Course, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...

Transportation officials say the use of golf carts by Boston parking regulation enforcers is a more visible and efficient means to patrol the city's streets. City Transportation Commissioner Thomas Tinlin said by equipping golf carts with flashing yellow lights, city officials have created a very noticeable alternative to traditional parking enforcement efforts, The Boston Globe said Thursday. That's not our goal, to increase parking tickets,'' Tinlin said of the new use of the golf carts....

As golf carts are used in more settings off the golf course, the number of injuries is rising. According to an article in the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, from 1990 until 2006, the injury rate rose more than 130 percent. During this period, nearly 150,000 golf cart-related injuries were recorded in people as young as 2 months and as old as 96 years.Golf carts have become much faster and more powerful - some can reach 25 mph and travel over 40 miles on a...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. "“ A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center study of children who were hospitalized from motorized go-cart accidents found that the average hospital stay was almost five days and that more than half of children required at least one operation "“ and almost a third required two or more operations. "Many parents don't seem to be aware of the potential dangers of private go-karts," said David Cline, M.D., an emergency medicine specialist and one of the...