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Woman crashes golf cart into Florida restaurant, seriously injuring diners

October 22, 2024
Ari Hait - WPBF

    JENSEN BEACH, Florida (WPBF) -- Several people are recovering from serious injuries suffered when a woman drove a golf cart through the dining area of a Jensen Beach restaurant.

The Martin County Sheriffโ€™s Office released video that shows the cart driving up a narrow ramp and into people sitting at tables at Tako Tiki on Saturday evening.

โ€œIf you look at the video, itโ€™s pretty dramatic,โ€ said Capt. Ruben Romero with the sheriffโ€™s office road patrol. โ€œYou can see some people almost end up underneath the golf cart.โ€

Romero said the cart was driven to the restaurant by an employee of Ocean Breeze resort, about half a mile away.

Somewhere along the way, a woman got in the cart with him.

Investigators said at some point, she was in the cart alone and tried to drive it.

โ€œShe did say she was trying to turn it on, didnโ€™t know how to operate it and ended up crashing into tables full of people eating dinner,โ€ Romero said.

Romero said none of the injuries are considered to be life-threatening, but one woman fractured her pelvis.

The woman driving the cart was charged with careless driving causing injury.

Romero said they do not believe alcohol was a factor.

โ€œShe did claim that she had taken a sip of an alcoholic beverage with dinner, but we did all our field sobriety tests,โ€ Romero said. โ€œWe did all the testing that we do with our traffic and our DUI units, and the results came back that she was not intoxicated at the time.โ€

The name of the woman driving the cart has not been released.

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