Are you among those when riding on the passenger seat would place their feet on the dashboard in a bid to feel more comfortable?

Are you the type that like the comfort or showoff of putting your leg on the dashboard? Do you feel the leg room is not enough for you?

If your answer to the above questions is yes, then know you’ve been doing the wrong thing as well as putting yourself in danger.

Placing your feet on the dashboard will expose you to danger that may have very serious consequences.
It might be comfortable at first but it can as well leave you with a long lasting injury if something should go wrong.

Airbags deploy between 100 and 220 MPH. If you ride with your feet on the dash and you're involved in an accident, the airbag may send your knees to the back seat.

You may think you can be fast to put them down when something is about to go wrong; you should be aware you're not superhuman. You might not be able to act as fast as needed. It is safer you stick to doing the needful. Don't place your legs on the dashboard of your car.

The ideal sitting position for the safe use of airbag remains using your seat belt and sitting upright.

We will share a story about a lady who paid deaf ears to this warning. She learnt the hard way and now regretting.

Read her story below;



As soon as Audra Tatum would hop into the passenger seat of a car, the mother of three from Walker County, Georgia, would lean back and relax with her feet up on the dashboard.

Her husband warned her about the dangerous habit, but Tatum didn't care — it was comfortable.

"All my life I had my legs crossed and my foot on the dash," Tatum told CBS News. "My husband always told me, 'You're going to get in a wreck someday, and you're going to break your legs.'"

Tatum assured him he was wrong.

"I'll put my foot down in time," she would always reply.

But two years ago, on August 2, 2015, Tatum's perspective changed completely.

The couple was heading to her parents' house about 4 miles away to pick up her two sons when a car pulled in front of her husband and they T-boned him. Everyone was able to walk away from the scene with scrapes and bruises, except for Tatum.

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

Tatum's ankle, femur and arm were all broken by the impact.

"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."

Tatum underwent several surgeries and weeks of physical therapy. It took her over a month to start walking again.

Two years later, she's still facing obstacles.

"I can't do my career as an EMS. I can't lift patients anymore," she explained. "I can't stand more than 4 hours at a time. Once I'm at that 4-hour mark I'm in tears."

Now the mom is using her story to warn others.

"I keep telling everybody, you don't want this life," she said. "You don't want the pain and agony every day."

https://autojosh.com/dangers-placing-feet-dashboard-car/

Wow. Finally I made it to FTC!

AutoJoshNG:


Are you among those when riding on the passenger seat would place their feet on the dashboard in a bid to feel more comfortable?

Are you the type that like the comfort or showoff of putting your leg on the dashboard? Do you feel the leg room is not enough for you?

If your answer to the above questions is yes, then know you’ve been doing the wrong thing as well as putting yourself in danger.

Placing your feet on the dashboard will expose you to danger that may have very serious consequences.
It might be comfortable at first but it can as well leave you with a long lasting injury if something should go wrong.

Airbags deploy between 100 and 220 MPH. If you ride with your feet on the dash and you're involved in an accident, the airbag may send your knees to the back seat.

You may think you can be fast to put them down when something is about to go wrong; you should be aware you're not superhuman. You might not be able to act as fast as needed. It is safer you stick to doing the needful. Don't place your legs on the dashboard of your car.

The ideal sitting position for the safe use of airbag remains using your seat belt and sitting upright.

We will share a story about a lady who paid deaf ears to this warning. She learnt the hard way and now regretting.

Read her story below;



As soon as Audra Tatum would hop into the passenger seat of a car, the mother of three from Walker County, Georgia, would lean back and relax with her feet up on the dashboard.

Her husband warned her about the dangerous habit, but Tatum didn't care — it was comfortable.

"All my life I had my legs crossed and my foot on the dash," Tatum told CBS News. "My husband always told me, 'You're going to get in a wreck someday, and you're going to break your legs.'"

Tatum assured him he was wrong.

"I'll put my foot down in time," she would always reply.

But two years ago, on August 2, 2015, Tatum's perspective changed completely.

The couple was heading to her parents' house about 4 miles away to pick up her two sons when a car pulled in front of her husband and they T-boned him. Everyone was able to walk away from the scene with scrapes and bruises, except for Tatum.

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

Tatum's ankle, femur and arm were all broken by the impact.

"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."

Tatum underwent several surgeries and weeks of physical therapy. It took her over a month to start walking again.

Two years later, she's still facing obstacles.

"I can't do my career as an EMS. I can't lift patients anymore," she explained. "I can't stand more than 4 hours at a time. Once I'm at that 4-hour mark I'm in tears."

Now the mom is using her story to warn others.

"I keep telling everybody, you don't want this life," she said. "You don't want the pain and agony every day."

https://autojosh.com/dangers-placing-feet-dashboard-car/

You wey get intention to form big boy or big girl

if this situation ever happens to you see your future in HD

Ladies be warned

I like doing this o

Dangers dey everywhere

Dangers of walking on the street @> you might get hit by a stray bullet.

Dangers of crossing the road @> you might get knocked the Bleep down by a vehicle.

Dangers of using a pedestrian bridge @> you might get thrown off the bridge by a psycho.

Girls especially love that habit, only those poor girls I ve carried that has not done it in my car

Hmmmm
AutoJosh!! Thanks for this Information....

Lessons Learnt

Not only ladies.... My big bro does that all the time.


In fact, he refuses to drive most times so he could do that.

hmmm

Rainmania:
I like doing this o

Then, keep it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKYfLck8mkU

Why you should never ride with your feet on the dashboard of a car

ALL THESE STUPID GIRLS THAT LIKE TO PLACE THEIR DIRTY LEGS ON DASHBOARD TO SHOW OFF, BE WARNED. ANY WAY, NO SENSIBLE AND WELL TRAINED GIRL WILL DO THAT . JUST THOSE ONCE THAT WORSHIP CARS, ANY TIME A GUY STOP A CAR TO SAY HI THEY ARE ALREADY WET.THEY ARE THE ONE DOING THAT .

Ladies una hear.....

The thing dey sweet women eh

How many cars have airbags in Nigeria

RIP TO THE DEAD

neweraomo:
RIP TO THE DEAD

I UNDERSTAND YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO READ BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST NOT COMMENT OUT OF IGNORANCE...WHAT DO YOU THINK

Yian1:



Then, keep it up

No wan na just to break one leg. I hop with the other one

Oh thats not good

remymartyn:
How many cars have airbags in Nigeria

I understand where u are coming from�

RIP TO THE DEAD


seriously?! u dont have to comment u knw...expecially whn we dont read d posts.

Hmm... Putting legs on dashboard can even distract a male driver (especially the bf or husband).

In Nigeria even the drivers put their feet up the dashboard

Just dey imagine the impact....

It well with me and you IJN

I have been warning someone about this lately... thank God the person is listening... Immediately we enter car especially long distance travel foots straight on the dashboard.