WALKER COUNTY, Ga. – A Georgia woman is speaking out to help others avoid the gruesome injuries she suffered after the car she was in crashed – while her feet were on the dashboard. 
 
 Audra Tatum of Walker County, Georgia, said her husband always warned her about sitting with her feet like that. But, she didn’t listen to him until they got into a car accident a couple of years ago. 
 
 Tatum broke several bones including her ankle, femur and arm. “The airbag went off, throwing my foot up and breaking my nose. I was looking at the bottom of my foot facing up at me,” she told CBS News. It took her over a month to start walking again, and she is still recovering two years later. She’s hoping others learn from her mistake. 
 
 Tatum isn’t the only one warning about this. The Chattanooga Fire Department posted a warning on Facebook, titled “Something You Need to Know”: ||||| As soon as Audra Tatum would hop into the passenger seat of a car, the mother of three from Walker County, Georgia, would lean back and relax with her feet up on the dashboard. 
 
 Her husband warned her about the dangerous habit, but Tatum didn't care — it was comfortable. 
 
 "All my life I had my legs crossed and my foot on the dash," Tatum told CBS News. "My husband always told me, 'You're going to get in a wreck someday, and you're going to break your legs.'" 
 
 Tatum assured him he was wrong. 
 
 "I'll put my foot down in time," she would always reply. 
 
 But two years ago, on August 2, 2015, Tatum's perspective changed completely. 
 
 The couple was heading to her parents' house about 4 miles away to pick up her two sons when a car pulled in front of her husband and they T-boned him. Everyone was able to walk away from the scene with scrapes and bruises, except for Tatum. 
 
 "The airbag went off, throwing my foot up and breaking my nose," Tatum explained. "I was looking at the bottom of my foot facing up at me." 
 
 Courtesy Audra Tatum 
 
 Tatum's ankle, femur and arm were all broken by the impact. 
 
 "Basically my whole right side was broken, and it's simply because of my ignorance," Tatum said. "I'm not Superman. I couldn't put my foot down in time." 
 
 Tatum underwent several surgeries and weeks of physical therapy. It took her over a month to start walking again. 
 
 Courtesy Audra Tatum 
 
 Two years later, she's still facing obstacles. 
 
 "I can't do my career as an EMS. I can't lift patients anymore," she explained. "I can't stand more than 4 hours at a time. Once I'm at that 4-hour mark I'm in tears." 
 
 Now the mom is using her story to warn others. 
 
 "I keep telling everybody, you don't want this life," she said. "You don't want the pain and agony every day." 
 
 A local fire department is helping to spread her story to demonstrate the serious consequences of resting your foot on a dashboard. 
 
 "Airbags deploy between 100 and 220 MPH. If you ride with your feet on the dash and you're involved in an accident, the airbag may send your knees through your eye sockets," the Chattanooga Fire Department warned in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 1,600 times. 
 
 If there wasn't an airbag at all, Tatum predicts her injuries could have been even worse. 
 
 "It could have done so much more damage. It did make it break my nose, but I could've hit the dash a whole lot harder without that airbag," she said. 
 
 Video: Real Life Local Example On our earlier post about the importance of keeping your feet off the dashboard, some... Posted by Chattanooga Fire Department on Monday, August 7, 2017 
 
 As she continues to recover, Tatum plans on telling her story to even more members of her community — and she hopes people get the message. 
 
 "If I can save one person from doing this and they're not going through it, that would be wonderful," Tatum said.
– Audra Tatum of Walker County, Georgia, says that for years she has sat in the passenger's seat with her legs crossed and her feet propped up on the dashboard. She says her husband always warned her about the dangers of sitting like that, but she never heeded his advice—and is paying dearly for what she tells CBS News was her own "ignorance." That's because she always thought she could put her feet down in time if necessary. But when a car pulled in front of her husband, causing the couple's car to T-bone him, everyone else walked away with minor scrapes, while she suffered what WTVR describes as "gruesome injuries," including a broken femur, ankle, and arm thanks to the airbag's impact. "The airbag went off, throwing my foot up and breaking my nose," the mother of three says. "I was looking at the bottom of my foot facing up at me." She is still recovering two years after the accident, and wants to get her story out. The Chattanooga Fire Department is helping, linking to her story and posting to Facebook about the dangers of riding with feet on the dashboard. The message: "While traveling this weekend, I noticed many passengers had their feet on the dashboard of their car. Airbags deploy between 100 & 220 MPH. If you ride with your feet on the dash and you're involved in an accident, the airbag may send your knees through your eye sockets." Tatum adds: "If I can save one person from doing this and they're not going through it, that would be wonderful." (This Georgia driver came upon the scene of her own son's death.)