Medical Professionals Are Revealing The Everyday Activities That Are Secretly “Death Traps”

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“Putting my legs up on the dashboard of a car. I love going on road trips, and I had been doing that for years until I saw a trauma come in. They had their legs on the dash and crashed at a high rate of speed. I saw an open femur fracture with a broken pelvis, the acetabulum (hipbone socket), and the femoral head (top of the thigh bone) come out through the vaginal opening. It was an immediate red line to the operating room. I tell everyone not to put their legs up on the dash.”

–untameimpalar

“And it makes me cringe seeing people hang their arms outside their cars. Sir, that’s an amputation waiting to happen.”

–3Zkiel

“Please, for the love of god: do not let your passenger put their feet up on the dashboard, or hang your foot out the window if you’re the driver. It’s impossibly difficult to snap your hip back into place.”

—junemertzf