If you do this in the car, ER doctors want you to stop!

ER Docs Want People To Stop Doing This One Super-Common Thing in the Car

Emergency room doctors want you to know that doing this in the car is actually dangerous.

ER doctors wish everyone would avoid putting their feet on the dashboard.

“I do a lot of driving on Los Angeles freeways, and one of the things that makes me cringe is when I pass a passenger who has their feet up on the dashboard,” says Dr. Solomon Behar, MD, a pediatric emergency doctor in Long Beach, California.

Dr. Behar explains that putting your feet on the dashboard of the car is dangerous because if there’s a collision, the force of the airbag and the forward momentum of the passenger can force the knees and legs into the dashboard, and you can get really severe, life-threatening injuries such as fractures, dislocations and ligamentous injuries to the pelvis, knees and the hips.

It’s an “unnecessary risk.”

It may sound boring, but ER doctors recommend that the safest way to sit in the car is with your knees bent and feet on the floor, with your seatbelt on. 

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