Safety Reminder- NO FEET ON DASH

[savethebeer]

If you ride with your feet on the dash and you're involved in an accident, the airbag may send your knees through your eye sockets," the Chattanooga Fire Department warned in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 1,600 times.

 

On December 16 2006, Ms Kealy, from Laois in Ireland, admitted she had decided to put her feet on the dashboard to be “more comfortable”.

She told the Irish Independent: “It was something I rarely did and only did that morning as I had bought a new pair of Ugg boots and knew that I wouldn’t dirty the dashboard.

“Silly when you think about it.” Ms Kealy suffered a brain leak when the jeep’s airbag burst open and woke up from a coma a week later with devastating injuries and had no recollection of the crash.

 

 

On December 16 2006, Ms Kealy, from Laois in Ireland, admitted she had decided to put her feet on the dashboard to be “more comfortable”.

 

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.

Georgia mom Audra Tatum is using her story to warn others not to put their feet up on the dashboard.COURTESY AUDRA TATUM

 

 

[Scrappile]

OOOOOOOCH!!!!!!

[teachnlearn]

With that kind of force, I wonder if you laid a airbag down and put something on it then set it off, How far up would it go? If you sit on it, could you be the first man in space without a spaceship? RJF

[RabidAlien]

8 minutes ago, teachnlearn said:

With that kind of force, I wonder if you laid a airbag down and put something on it then set it off, How far up would it go? If you sit on it, could you be the first man in space without a spaceship? RJF

There's videos of ....geniuses.... doing exactly that.  They don't get much altitude, but the forces involve do tend to contort the human body into positions it most definitely was NOT designed to assume and, in some cases, I'm pretty sure it voided the genius' warranties.

[jerry1939]

In driving schools, they used to tell students to hold the steering with both hands, one at 10 o'clock & the other at 2 o'clock.  NOT ANYMORE !!!  They airbag would break both arms if deployed.  

jerry

[teachnlearn]

Great Jerry, now I have to drive down the road, ducking and weaving my body, so the airbag doesn't hit it and break it. Might look like a fool, but by gosh, I'm not breaking a body part! RJF