You’re not breaking the law in most provinces if you put your feet on the dash, but if there’s a crash, you could break your legs, police say
I drove from Vancouver to Kelowna , B.C., this summer with a friend in the front passenger seat. We’ve been friends for more than 20 years, but this was our first road trip together. As soon as we got on the highway, she took her sandals off and put her feet up on my dashboard. We bickered a little and I gave in. I wasn’t thrilled because, well, it’s gross.
How badly could you be hurt? In 2010, Bethany Benson, a 22-year-old Oshawa woman, was sleeping in the passenger seat with her seat back and her feet up when the car she was in ran into a suddenly braking semi. The airbag forced her knees into her face, SheMcLaughlin said he hasn’t personally heard of anyone seriously hurt in a crash because their feet were on the dash, but he said crash statistics do not show whether front-seat passengers had their feet on the dash.
But Sean Shapiro, a traffic safety consultant and retired Toronto traffic cop, said he would pull over cars every time he saw a passenger with their feet on the dash to tell them it was “stupid.”
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