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Can you warn car passengers not to put their feet on the dash?
Recently a friend was in the front passenger seat with her feet up on the dash. Her husband (driving) had a relatively minor collision and the airbag deployed smashing both ankles of his wife. She‘s unlikely to ever walk properly again and faces years of treatment. She is 42. Can you publish a warning?
Asked on 23 March 2013 by CE, Southsea
Answered by
Honest John
Quentin Tarantino's movie 'Death Proof' (2007) does a better job than I could to discourage this sort of thing. In the movie, a girl has a leg hanging out of the window when Kurt Russell's car hits head-on.
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