Do you ride with your feet on the dash? Bad idea! Here's why.

My family and another couple were headed to Wilmington, North Carolina for a weeks vacation at the beach. We were in 2 vehicles, it was about 5am, and they were about an hour ahead of us.
My wifes cellphone rang and when she answered you could hear a loud noise and commotion in the background. They had been traveling 70mph when an animal attempted to cross in front of them.
He didn't make it.
Turns out it was a dog, a big dog, a dalmation!
They had airbags, they went off.
The wife was asleep in shorts barefoot and her feet were laying on the dash.
The passenger airbag blew her legs and feet into the windshield cutting her legs and legs in several places. It also broke her fibula (small leg bone).
They spent the night in hospital and she had to lay on the couch for 2 weeks.
Needless to say they missed going to the beach in a great beach house.

Please keep your feet off the dash!

Edited by lightnup, 08 May 2012 - 06:31 PM.
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I'm starting to realize.. If your in a crash your fucked period.

My moms BF is a fireman and he sent me pics of this car that had gotten in a head on collision because some dumb fuck was texting..

Kid was my age.. Driving a small generic lookin car..

Gets hit head on.. And the gas and brake pedals shoved in and caught both his legs.. Breaking both shins and fucking up his legs in general. They had to cut the pedals off just to get the kid out n to a hospital..

OK mom.

Better solution to this problem:
Don't crash.

Riding like that is comfy as hell though Glad people sustained relatively minor injuries, car accidents are nasty

Or if you realize you're gunna crash...

Put your feet down.

Yes, if you realize it and have the time.
She was asleep at the time.
It happened pretty much instantly.

I'm always riding with my feet up there, just so comfortable, never wear a seatbelt either.. I'm fucked either way.

You will probably fly thru the windshield.
I hope not for your sake.

It seems like only women do that shit.

Im always wondering why the fuck do you always take your shoes off and put your feet out the window. Or on the dash, crazy women lol next time you ride on the highway on a nice day, hella little women feet sticking out everywhere.

Or if you realize you're gunna crash...

Put your feet down.

Cause I know every crash I've been in i was given a lovely 30second window to contemplate what was happening

I'm always riding with my feet up there, just so comfortable, never wear a seatbelt either.. I'm fucked either way.

I don't know if you were thinking that people would think you were a badass since you don't wear your seat belt, but no. Just no.

Please wear your fucking seat belt. Engineers get paid triple-digit salaries to design incredibly safe cars, but the seat belt is the linchpin. You can survive almost any crash if you have your seat belt on, but without it? You're completely fucked. Completely. Fucked.

Don't do that to yourself.

Better solution to this problem:
Don't crash.

Yeah, thanks for the brilliant advice, smartass. As if anyone who gets in a wreck thinks "I'm going to get in a wreck today" when they leave the house... If it were as easy as not crashing people wouldn't ever get in wrecks.

/endmomrant


///M

Edited by MMM3, 08 May 2012 - 08:23 PM.

lesson learned.

don't do stupid shit by mis-using powerful tools. (motor-vehicle is a very powerful tool)

She was not seated in the power tool properly...people do stupid shit when it comes to their own safety (let's strap kids to bumpers...fuck those child safety seats...)...


I've seen someone with a child safety seat strapped to a motorcycle 'backseat'...didn't see it being driven, it was at the grocery store once, long ago....(and there was one helmet locked to the seat, no hat for the kid I guess...)

Yes, I was told a story by my parents about being behind a car where the woman passenger had her feet out the window and the driver hit a sturdy mailbox.
Messed her feet up real bad.

Yes, I was told a story by my parents about being behind a car where the woman passenger had her feet out the window and the driver hit a sturdy mailbox.
Messed her feet up real bad.

Another bit of advice: don't use a cell phone driving 70 mph at 5 AM

I was in a car crash in that position once. It may of saved my life.

Im 6 feet tall and drive a honda. If my feet were to be on the dash it would only be because of a wreck as there's no other way I could willingly put my feet there.

LOL at 6'3" I don't fit comfortably in most cars to begin with, let alone even trying to get my legs on the dash...

LOL at 6'3" I don't fit comfortably in most cars to begin with, let alone even trying to get my legs on the dash...

I'm 6'4 and I'm always just fine as long as I'm in a 4 door car.