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Relaxing on a long car journey? Tempting to put your feet up on the dashboard, isn't it?
After you read this, you might think twice. Audra Tatum found out the hard way. Audra, a mum of three from Georgia, US, was riding as a passenger two years ago and, as was her habit, put her feet up.
"All my life I had my legs crossed and my foot on the dash," she told KTVQ . "My husband always told me, 'You're going to get in a wreck someday, and you're going to break your legs.'"
Audra assured her husband she'd put her legs down in time. But when another vehicle ploughed into hers, she broke her ankle, femur, and her legs went flying into her face, breaking her nose and shoulder.
She said: "The airbag went off, throwing my foot up and breaking my nose. I was looking at the bottom of my foot facing up at me."
Two years later, Audra is still recovering. Her injuries are severe: "I can't do my career as an EMS. I can't lift patients anymore. I can't stand more than 4 hours at a time. Once I'm at that 4-hour mark I'm in tears." Although the crash was significant, doctors told Audra that had her feet been on the floor, she wouldn't have "had any issues whatsoever".
She's warning others not to make the same mistake she did:"I keep telling everybody, you don't want this life. You don't want the pain and agony every day."
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