Woman tries to drive golf cart but ends up plowing through restaurant as diners dive out of way: video

A woman shocked patrons of a Florida restaurant Saturday night when she careened through the dining area on a golf cart — slamming into tables and seriously injuring several people.A surveillance camera at Tako Tiki in Jensen Beach recorded the jaw-dropping incident, which began when the woman accidentally piloted the cart up a narrow ramp that leads to a covered outdoor dining room, according to ABC 25 in West Palm Beach.The cart crushed a table where two women sat, then continued to smash into a group of other stunned restaurant-goers, according to a video released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.“It’s pretty dramatic,” said Capt.

Ruben Romero, of the office’s road patrol.“You can see some people almost end up underneath the golf cart.”Several people were hurt, including one woman who fractured her pelvis.

But none of the injuries were life-threatening, the captain added.Shockingly, authorities say alcohol wasn’t involved in the crash, with Romero noting that the woman driver passed cops’ sobriety tests, ABC said.“She did claim that she had taken a sip of an alcoholic beverage with dinner,” the captain said.“We 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.”An employee of a nearby resort drove the cart to the restaurant, and picked up the still-unidentified woman at some point, police said.Details of the incident remain unclear, but the woman eventually tried to drive the cart herself — even though she clearly didn’t know how.“She did say she was trying to turn it on, didn’t know how to operate it and ended up crashing into tables full of people eating dinner,” Romero said.Cops charged her with careless driving causing injury....