# You knew this, right? Never ride without a seatbelt and your feet on the dashboard. Ask Audra Tatum how she knows! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-knew-this-right-never-ride-without-a-seatbelt-and-your-feet-on-the-dashboard-ask-audra-tatum-how-she-knows/106757 "2017-08-09T23:09:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-knew-this-right-never-ride-without-a-seatbelt-and-your-feet-on-the-dashboard-ask-audra-tatum-how-she-knows/106757/1 "2017-08-09T23:09:56Z")
> **[Why you should never ride with your feet on the dash of your car](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/09/ride-your-feet-dash-airbag-could-send-your-knees-through-your-eye-sockets/551695001/)** > > A Georgia woman who broke her nose and now walks with a limp regrets propping her feet up. How many times have you seen drivers or passengers taking risks like this in vehicles? It always troubles me when I see people with arms dangling from car/truck windows. Could they get them inside quickly enough when push comes to shove? What do you say? What else have you seen? _ **CSA** _ ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-knew-this-right-never-ride-without-a-seatbelt-and-your-feet-on-the-dashboard-ask-audra-tatum-how-she-knows/106757/2 "2017-08-09T23:23:12Z")
We can’t do anything quickly enough if we aren’t prepared beforehand. That’s why I wear my seat belt all the time in the car. I saw about 12 people riding on an MGB once. So did a cop. He made us all get off the car, too. Good thing we hadn’t gone more than a few feet. Good thing the driver was sober, too. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-knew-this-right-never-ride-without-a-seatbelt-and-your-feet-on-the-dashboard-ask-audra-tatum-how-she-knows/106757/3 "2017-08-10T00:30:20Z")
Your friends were a lot smaller than mine. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-knew-this-right-never-ride-without-a-seatbelt-and-your-feet-on-the-dashboard-ask-audra-tatum-how-she-knows/106757/4 "2017-08-10T00:33:38Z")
Live hard die young and make a good looking corpse, I failed at that, but wonder about being a passenger with the seat reclined and seat belt on, never seemed like it would work like it supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-knew-this-right-never-ride-without-a-seatbelt-and-your-feet-on-the-dashboard-ask-audra-tatum-how-she-knows/106757/5 "2017-08-10T18:45:08Z")
No, we were probably not smaller. We were college kids at The Shore for a good time. Note that having a good time does not require good judgement, something that men in their early 20s have very little of.