This is one of those things where my 6+ ft height is a privilege.
I have never even dreamed of putting my feet on the dash.
Oof… I shattered my pelvis into 13 pieces in a bad car accident in 2015. They thought i might not walk again, but I thank God im walking just fine. I also had major head trauma and had totally lost my short term memory at first. Its has fully come back, I think, mostly. I couldn’t even hold a conversation at first.
I bet that black circle in the upper left is a pre-fart.
Dude your leg went up your ass
If you look at their sacrum you can see their soul crying (it kinda looks like a face in agony)
seems like he broke more than just the hips. 1 dislocated leg that is also broken, and the other one shattered.
Meanwhile I see kids doing this all the time while mom or dad looks at their phone behind the wheel. I do live in a redneck area*, though.
*the USA.
Whenever anyone does this in my car I check if I’m clear of other cars and slam on my brakes sending then under the dash.
They always get the message.
And I will keep doing it.
Right? People kinda willfully forget anywhere that isn’t a major metropolutan area has a possibility of being the redneck type of rural, and that’s not even exclusive to the USA.
God I thought I was nuts when i saw a face too
It can literally Kill you! Even a lower speed accident. I took care of a patient who’s leg was shattered and it cut her femoral artery into a couple pieces.
DEAD! Just by hanging her bare feet outside the front passenger window across the edge of the dashboard. Air bag deployed. The END.
Yeah, one of my college roommates knew a girl that died in a similar way. Feet on dash, air bag deploy, knees pulverized brain.
That sux.
If this is someone born male, they hip checked themselves in the nuts. Ow ow ow!
White indicates density and that white bit above the ball of their femur is let’s say plausibly a whangdoodle.
Was.
That took a second to sink in how bad this would be
I can’t even conceptualise what happened based on this xray, all I know is it looks fucking painful.
I assume some kind of force – airbag or emergency brake – slammed their legs into their body, dislocated the hip joint and pushed the femur sideways and into their pelvis.
As horrific as this is, it feels a bit over cautious. There’s quite many horrific accident pics to be found that could be used to say ‘never in your life get into a car’.
In the many years that I’ve been driving I’ve never collided with another car. The amount of time I’ve sat in a car with my legs on the dashboard is even smaller, as it’s not particularly comfortable.That doesn’t mean accidents don’t happen, but the statistical risk of this particular incident happening is rather small.
There’s really a lot more things that are statistically more dangerous than this, that people still do on a daily basis like standing on a ladder or playing sports.
It’s more the tone of the commenters saying “how stupid of them!” rather than “That’s terrible and unfortunate”. Guarantee each person saying that has done something like this at one point in their life.
But I think it’s also more anticar: “Driving cars is stupid”, which tracks for Lemmy.
What are you talking about?
“I’ve never got into a crash, so go ahead and put your feet up on the dash if you like because people get injured from ladder falls and sports.”
First of all, and this is an issue I’m trying to impress on my 7 year old too, no one intends to have an accident, that’s why it’s called and accident. Just because you’ve never been in a car collision doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
Then, in the event that a collision does happen, you really don’t want your feet up because it will be worse. What may have been some heavy bruising to your face and chest turned into one shattered femur and one ripped right out of your hip.
That’s the lesson, and it’s not “over cautious”. It’s absolutely an appropriate level of caution.
Statistically how realistic is the scenario, though?
My point is that there’s more urgent dangers to worry about.
I still don’t understand.
It sounds like you’re saying we should not be concerned with putting our feet up on the dash because we could fall off a ladder.
Don’t put your feet up on the dashboard because an unlikely crash could shatter your hips.
Don’t step on the top of a step ladder because a less unlikely fall could break your spine.
Why are we comparing them like it’s incompatible to practice basic safety for both? Absolutely, there are many other more common dangers in the world you should guard yourself against. But not putting yourself in a position to severely worsen your injuries in the event of a car collision is one of them!
Oh I do agree that practicing basic safety is essential. Only in this case the horrible effect after the crash takes center stage over the likelihood of it happening.
This is a very common psychological effect that we are more scared the more horrendous something is, instead of how likely it is to happen.
I wonder if there even statistics on the amount of crashes involving people with their feet on the dash. But in this thread it’s talked about it putting ones get in the dash is as reckless behavior, which is not really. There barely more risk of an accident putting your feet there.
There are statistics on where most accidents happen and it’s most often around the house.
You’re conflating the severity of the consequences to the likelihood of it happening.
The likelihood of getting in a crash is not higher if your feet are on the dash. The likelihood of your injuries being worse, way worse, is. That’s the point of plenty of plenty of precautions.
Do you think seatbelts aren’t necessary because they don’t make you less likely to crash?
The hip bones attached to the… Oh, sorry about that…
Looks like the taint bone…
Taint nothing wrong with dat
Not to be all prudish or anything, but this made my stomach turn seeing it. IDK if tagging it would help but at least I would have been mentally braced for it.
