You’ll Avoid Resting Your Feet On The Dashboard Forever After You Read This Woman’s Story

Sep 10, 2018 by apost team

Before you continue, dig deep into your mind for one moment - how many times have you been around someone that put their feet on the dashboard of a car or truck? Although it might seem like a comfy place to kick up your feet and relax, Audra Tatum would do anything to keep herself from doing it on a normal, relaxed summer night in 2015.

Audra Tatum of New York and her recently-wedded husband were driving around the back roads of upstate New York almost exactly three years ago. Both of them had their seatbelts on. Nobody else was in the vehicle with them. They weren't blasting loud music. The Tatums also weren't under the influence of any drugs.

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Out of nowhere, a speeding bullet of a vehicle struck the newlywed couple's car from the passenger side - that's where Audra was sitting with one foot up on the dash like she usually did in the sweltering-hot summertime - and mangled their ride into pieces.

Audra's femur - the femur is the anatomical term for what's better known as the thighbone; the femur is the largest bone in the human body by far, and is also the strongest - snapped in four separate places, causing her foot to rebound from the impact and pummel her face.

The injury list didn't end there, however, for Audra - her nose, shoulder, and arm also took quite the beating. As a matter of fact, Audra was soon thereafter carried away on a stretcher to find out her nose, arm, and shoulder were all broken.

Audra, an emergency medical technician (EMT), had to resign immediately due to the fact her recovery would take over a year. She rolled away in a wheelchair from multiple surgeries over a several-day period with one rod and four screws in her femur - not to mention casts here, there, and everywhere.

Unfortunately, Audra Tatum is just one of hundreds of people who get in wrecks across the United States all while having their feet on the dashboard.

Eight years ago, Bethany Benson - and of course her feet were on the dashboard - what else? - was riding in the passenger seat of her boyfriend's truck. Out of the proverbial blue, an 18-wheeler screeched to a halt on the highway Benson and her boyfriend were traveling on.

One of Bethany's eye sockets and cheekbones broke as a direct result of the accident; she suffered collateral damage when her feet smacked against her face so hard that her brain bled severely.

To this day, Bethany Benson has serious hearing and memory issues.

Today, Audra uses her story to dissuade others from kicking their feet up on moving vehicles' dashes.

Do you kick your feet up on cars', trucks', and other vehicles' dashboards? You're probably second-guessing your decisions by now. Aren't you glad you've gotten lucky enough so far to not get in an accident when your feet were "innocently" on the dash? Let us know your thoughts!