Multi-Use Path? Scooters okay too? How about motorcycles under 100cc? Maybe gas and electric scooters, bikes and golf carts. Maybe Gators, Mules, and gas carts only? Gee, maybe you need some rules regarding your path usage. Jogging, walking, gas carts, golf carts, bicycles, and you are surprised that you have your second fatality in a year? get used to it if you don't change something. Ask any doctor in town how many 'golf cart' accidents they see. Yea, let's sentence the golf cart rider on the golf cart path for killing a bicycle rider - life without parole okay with you?

What you are going to get is a meeting where some stupid new rules will be issued and people assigned and then after a month, it will be forgotten about and never enforced. We have hired, probably, twenty-five, cops in the last twenty years strictly for the paths, and none of them are there often. No common sense is used when they are assigned, since they are ticked at the duty, so it is soon stopped.

I think that if she was speeding around a corner then, yes, she needs criminal prosecution. But we also have to have sympathy for her. It WAS and accident.

That said, a lot of you are blaming trees and bushes for accidents. Do you realize how silly that sounds?

Try this: Slow down twenty or thirty yards before a turn. Treat it like a four-way stop. Creep to the turn, look carefully both ways, and then procede. It isn't rocket science. It's called defensive driving. Another name for it is: smart driving.

I never speed around corners. Never. But I have yet to see a teenager who drives slowly around corners or when approaching head-on, and that includes most adults.

When rounding corners, go under five mph. When approaching head-on, go under 5 mph.

It's simple, and it works.

End-of discussion.

The site of the accident has the outline of the deceased on the side of the road where golf carts should be driving. The cross that has been placed in remembrance of Mr. Earle has also been placed on the side where golf carts should be. Mrs. Yorkshaitis' golf cart is not one of those newer models which run maybe 20 to 25 mph, but rather the normal 16 or 18 mph. If she was going uphill, the golf cart should have been laboring, so she could not have been speeding. THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT. THEY DID NO SEE EACH OTHER, AND THEREFORE TRIED THEIR BEST TO AVOID THE COLLISION. What is going to happen at the end is that even the manufacturer of Mr. Earle's helmet will be sued, since the helmet cracked opened. This is the way society is - we always need someone to blame. We can speak all we want about bushes, trees, speeding golf carts, negligence, etc, but the bottom line is that God already had that date picked out to receive Mr. Earle in His Kingdom. His Will shall always be done regardless of the circumstances.

Unfortunately, the people who drive golf carts too fast and reckless are not the ones, in my opinion, who read these web comments, nor even read newspapers. We are preaching to the choir only, usually. If you really think just because you know how to approach a dangerous intersection and that fact would influence them, even if they read this stuff, you would be wrong. I do agree that cutting some bushes wouldn't help much. I have met some of these people on the straightaway who won't even cut off the path slightly to safely pass you, as I do. They are willing to head-on you unless you get off! Either that, or they have no common sense or knowledge of distance. The tunnel at the Glass gazebo is blind, but some hit that tunnel at full gallop, on both sides. That is ignorance, and is hard to cure without a traffic ticket. We aren't likely to get any traffic tickets issued here on the paths. Are we? Why do we allow fast carts? Why do we allow reckless bicycle riding? Not a priority for more than five minutes.

whtfayette, I think you need to take a reading comprehension class.

The article says, “A Peachtree City man whose bike crashed into a golf cart Friday afternoon has died, police said.”

It does not say that he was hit by the golf cart but rather crashed into a golfcart.

Additionally, it was stated in previous versions of this article that it was most likely that neither could see the other because of the overgrown vegetation.

Your accusation that Karen Yorkshaitis was at fault is unfounded.

If anything, you owe Karen Yorkshaitis an apology.

whtfayette, whoever you are. Those words were uncalled for. Have you been to the scene of the accident? There is no way that Mrs. Yorshaitis nor Mr. Earle could have avoided each other. Yes, Mr. Earle lost his life, and hopefully is living his new one as promised by the Lord he so served in his church. Mrs. Yorkshaitis is alive, but her life will never be the same. She will have to live with the fact that due to a very unfortunate event she took a life. But the Lord that she knows and also serves at her church will take care of healing her, and hopefully she will move on. You must be someone very perfect, never making a mistake or causing any kind of accident so that you can be so quick to judge. With that type of thinking it is the Lord I hope you serve that will prosecute you to the fullest extent of His law. It is even a sadder day in PTC just to know that we have people like you who run to conclusion and wish people only the worst.

What exactly have you determined she is going to be prosecuted for? It seems to me after all I have read it was a terrible accident.

For sure this is an unfortunate accident and we are praying for the Earle family.

There is an issue mentioned in the news account that is worth mentioning, especially since it has bothered me for years. That is:

"Maybe someone should look into trimming back some of the shrubbery that lines that area or even posting a sign that warns of the upcoming intersection"

Well sure, someone should do the trimming - there and elsewhere, but someone should also look at what in the world these planners in PTC and many other places are thinking about when they require landscaping that will obviously grow and block the views of drivers - cars or golf carts.

To me this is a far more important issue than trimming. Specifically, don't require a builder or developer to plant something that will eventually grow and create a safety hazard. Is the planning commission or planning staff partially responsible for Mr. Earle's death? I hope not, but I don't know. Why give some poney-tailed money-grubbing lawyer an entry into our city's (self insured) liability fund?

The most obvious current example is along the Parkway when you are trying to make a left turn and are in the median and cannot see the oncoming traffic because of the shrubs and trees that are 8 feet tall.

To summarize, don't plant things for the sake of planting things. Consider the future impact of tour planting decisions on traffic safety. Please, before we all get sued.

Maybe.....just maybe we are all part of the problem... We all speed, we all tend to think we are the only ones out on the paths.....and they were built for us exclusively........right??

This is a tragedy.....and it is one that didn't have to happen. We are all responsible....yeah, maybe we could trim some shrubbery, maybe.... just maybe WE COULD ALL SLOW DOWN.

Maybe we could remeber to be thoughtful, and think about the fact that we aren't the only ones in the world.

Maybe the police could get out there and start to issue tickets to people who are speeding on the paths.

I am sure these two people had no idea their day would end this way. Given their ages, I doubt either one of them was speeding, or driving/riding recklessley. My point is even when no one is speeding, look at the tragedy that can occur. Even at a low rate of speed, someone lost their life.

Lets not let this lesson go to waste....lets learn from it and move on.

My condolences and prayers go to the Earle family.

Again our prayers are with the family.

Now, what about the rest of the cart path system?

There are several places where there are “blind” turns.

My all time favorite is the BIG ROCK on the southern tip of Village Park. It’s not a tree or shrubs that block you view, it’s a bolder that the kids have spray painted. There is no way to see around that thing.

Now that the city has hired someone to fix the path system this problem may be addressed.

I would like the city to take whatever action is necessary to correct as many of these blind turns as possible so that we never have to deal with something like this again.

The passing of Mr. Earle has affected many of us, regardless if we knew him or not. We should all ask ourselves "are we ready?" I bet you that when Mr. Earle and Mrs. YorKshaitis went out on that lovely afternoon on the golf cart path, neither remotely thought that their lives would change forever. I know it has been a wake up call for our family - making us more aware of where we are spiritually. Our Maker knows the day we will go to meet Him. I visited the sight were the accident took place and as far as I am concerned the accident could not have been avoided. It was no one's fault - it just happened. May God in His infinite mercy be with both families; bringing them healing and acceptance.