Watch Video: This Is Why You Shouldn’t Put Your Feet On The Dashboard

Propping your legs up on a vehicle ’ s dashboard could break your body for life .
Airbags deploy at between 100 and 220 miles per hour, and could “ send your knees through your eye sockets” in the event of a crash, Tennessee ’ s Chattanooga Fire Department warns.
The message , one the department shared last year, too, is a frightening one that a Georgia woman is all too familiar with .
Two years ago, Audra Tatum had her legs crossed with one foot on the dashboard when she was involved in a crash that deployed the airbag , sending her foot into her face , CBS News reports.

“ The airbag went off, throwing my foot up and breaking my nose , ” Tatum , who wasn ’ t wearing a seat belt , told CBS . “ I was looking at the bottom of my foot facing up at me .”
Besides her nose , Tatum broke her ankle, femur and arm, telling CBS she still walks with a limp and can ’t stand more than 4 hours at a time.
“ Basically my whole right side was broken , and it’ s simply because of my ignorance ,” Tatum said . “ I ’ m not Superman. I couldn’ t put my foot down in time. ”
Tatum underwent several surgeries and weeks of physical therapy. It took her over a month to start walking again .

Two years later, she ’ s still facing obstacles.
“ I can ’ t do my career as an EMS . I can’ t lift patients anymore, ” she explained . “ I can’ t stand more than 4 hours at a time. Once I ’ m at that 4 - hour mark I ’ m in tears .”
Now the mom is using her story to warn others .
“ I keep telling everybody, you don ’ t want this life ,” she said . “ You don ’ t want the pain and agony every day . ”
A local fire department is helping to spread her story to demonstrate the serious consequences of resting your foot on a dashboard .
“ Airbags deploy between 100 and 220 MPH. If you ride with your feet on the dash and you ’ re involved in an accident , the airbag may send your knees through your eye sockets, ” the Chattanooga Fire Department warned in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 1, 600 times.
If there wasn ’ t an airbag at all , Tatum predicts her injuries could have been even worse.
“ It could have done so much more damage . It did make it break my nose , but I could ’ ve hit the dash a whole lot harder without that airbag ,” she said .