You know the feeling and you love it. You’re in a car on a seemingly unending road trip with your loved ones, the sun’s setting and you are chatting away. You have your feet in relaxed position. Sometimes a serious of unfortunate events unfurls something painful and very horrible. A simple and innocent act of putting legs on a dashboard can cause a world of pain to be unleashed.
Bethany Benson had been signed up at Nottingham Trent University and was studying there in order to complete a degree in history and French. Benson had plans of becoming a teacher on finishing her graduation.
But she went through a horrific incident that changed her life for ever. She suffered numerous injuries due to her innocent habit which turned out to be her biggest mistake in an accident.
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Bethany and her boyfriend were driving in their car on a road trip. They were happy together and enjoying quality together. Bethany was in the passenger seat beside her boyfriend and decided to put her feet up on the dashboard, something she actually had a habit of doing regularly.
Unfortunately, ahead on the road a motorbike had collided with a small car. This created a chain reaction and a domino effect which caused a tractor with a trailer behind it to apply brakes to avoid the collision. This caused Bethany’s boyfriend to also apply the brakes but his reaction was too late and their car crashed into the back of the trailer.
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Going by the picture of the car it only looks like a miracle saved both of them and they survived.
The boyfriend and Bethany both suffered injuries to their bodies, but the boyfriend got away with recoverable injuries. Bethany seemed to bear the brunt of the force in the accident. The most horrific and serious injuries happened to her legs which she had put up on the dashboards.
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As you know, in an event of an accident and collision, the cars are designed to deploy airbags in order to save the passengers from getting hurt by the dashboard and the steering.
Bethany’s legs bore the maximum impact and led her to suffer several dreadful injuries that she will now live forever. Due to the impact of collision, the airbags in the car deployed at over 200mph. In a normal crash, this is enough to affect minor injuries. But if you were sitting like Bethany, the injuries were more serious.
As Bethany’s feet were hard-pressed on the dash board, the legs went up against the windshield. This caused her knees to crash into her eyes, which broke her cheekbone and the socket of her left eye. Her nose also broke and she also suffered fractures in eight bones in her left foot and three in her right. The biggest injury was suffered by her knees, which were damaged internally.
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The impact also caused her brain to bleed internally and caused severe brain damage. Her mother had to put her retirement plans on hold in order to take care of Bethany.
About that fateful day she says, “I lost a sweet 22-year-old who worked full-time and put herself through university. She was on a great path. I got a 13-year-old with anger issues.” Bethany is also required to take a very large amount of pills every day while she also wears expensive orthopedic shoes to help her walk.
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