As the title says, I’ve heard that putting your feet on the dashboard is more dangerous when you get in a car accident. I prefer to sit like this in the passenger seat, but some people have told me I am more likely to break my spine or legs in this position.
About 20 years ago, I knew a woman who had to have her leg amputated after a bad car accident. I remember she told me she was sitting the “proper” way too. So, #1) Is it true that putting your feet up in a moving car is that much worse for your body; and #2) Can you explain how sitting properly in a car helps prevent damage or injury to the body?
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Don’t base your decisions on what one person told you twenty years ago. Base it on proper science that has examined thousands of car accidents. Sure, you can get badly hurt in a car accident even if you sit correctly. But that doesn’t mean this person you talked to would have been better off if she’d had her feet up on the dashboard. And *even if* in this particular accident, her leg might have been saved if she had sat with her feet up on the dash (which might be possible in some exceptional cases), that doesn’t mean that sitting like that is a good idea in general.
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