Claim: Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. "An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch."
Fact-check: Rhode Island Rep. Peter Palumbo says a dog in a driver's lap poses flying projectile risk
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2013-01-30T00:00:00