Woman Warns 'never Put Your Legs On The Dashboard' After Horrific Accident

[Satanica]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-warns-apos-never-put-034206520.html

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Audra Tatum said her husband repeatedly told her to not put her feet up while "relaxing" in the passenger seat in case she "was in a wreck someday," but she just told him she would eventually.

In August 2015, the couple were struck by a truck in Georgia and while her husband walked away with minor scrapes, Ms Tatum's legs suffered extensive damage, CBS News reported.

"The airbag went off, throwing my foot up and breaking my nose," she said. "I was looking at the bottom of my foot facing up at me."

The mother-of-two had to learn to walk again after breaking her ankle, femur and arm.
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"Basically my whole right side was broken, and it's simply because of my ignorance," Tatum said. "I'm not Superman. I couldn't put my foot down in time."

A local fire department has tried to help Ms Tatum spread awareness, telling the public airbags could send a person's knees through their eyes in a crash if their feet are on the dashboard.

 

[cubby]

And I thought for all these years my mama was just being a bitch.

Another clueless idiot.

 

[JackBurton]

This is really an issue that needs awareness spread/raised?

Are people out of their god damned minds? Idiots.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

A young college student had her knees driven into her eye sockets. She has brain damage which lead to emotional problems - can't concentrate, can't control her anger. Now unemployable, she lives at home with her mother, on disability. She was last year's poster girl for dashboard feet.
This lady is lucky.

 

[John Holmes]

And she thought she would never touch her head to her toes

 

[Sejanus]

I never see this in Canada, but when I go to the States I see it all the frigging time.

 

[Just Rose]

I used to do it all the time
Haven't done it for 15 yrs.
I guess I was lucky

 

[roadsidehorror]

She's lucky they didn't have to extract her head out of her asshole.