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Driving a golf cart on the public road is not legal – much so if you’re drive it the wrong way. Troopers from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) had to pull over an 83-year-old man for doing just that.
The Arizona man has a history of mental issues associated with old age, and that’s what caused him to get behind the wheel of his golf cart and speed off on the freeway at 5.30 in the morning. Concerned drivers noticed him going the wrong way and called the police, and officers made sure he got back home safe, to his wife, into whose custody he was released.
According to the DPS, officers had to pursue the golf cart after its driver “failed to yield.” “The driver of the golf cart failed to yield and at that point chandler PD officers and our motor were able to box the golf cart in and get it stopped,” DPS says in a statement to Fox News.
The driver wasn’t injured, but he looked “confused” when the cops stopped him. He was convinced that he was “leaving a meeting,” so in his mind, he had done nothing wrong – and certainly nothing to warrant being pulled over by police.
After the DPS officers got the man home safe and sound, and making the incident public on Twitter, they realized this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. In fact, it was the second time in as many months he was caught while out in his golf cart on the public road.
In July this year, DPS officers tracked him on I-10, where he’d taken his golf cart for a spin. “During that incident, A Good Samaritan stayed behind him until we were able to get him stopped,” DPS says in an update on social media.
According to the DPS, officers had to pursue the golf cart after its driver “failed to yield.” “The driver of the golf cart failed to yield and at that point chandler PD officers and our motor were able to box the golf cart in and get it stopped,” DPS says in a statement to Fox News.
The driver wasn’t injured, but he looked “confused” when the cops stopped him. He was convinced that he was “leaving a meeting,” so in his mind, he had done nothing wrong – and certainly nothing to warrant being pulled over by police.
After the DPS officers got the man home safe and sound, and making the incident public on Twitter, they realized this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. In fact, it was the second time in as many months he was caught while out in his golf cart on the public road.
In July this year, DPS officers tracked him on I-10, where he’d taken his golf cart for a spin. “During that incident, A Good Samaritan stayed behind him until we were able to get him stopped,” DPS says in an update on social media.
The driver of the golf cart does have mental health issues associated with old age. We had contact with him on July 11th, when he drove his golf cart on I-10 near Wild Horse Pass. During that incident, A Good Samaritan stayed behind him until we were able to get him stopped.
— Dept. Public Safety (@Arizona_DPS) August 23, 2018
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