 More on these stories at townhall.com. I'm Ron. In 2010, Bethany Benson was a passenger riding home with her boyfriend. Her feet were stretched out on the dashboard. As she slept, the car smashed into a tractor trailer, crumpling the car's entire front end. The airbag pressure threw Benson's legs upward through the windshield. She suffered extensive broken bones in her feet. She also has permanent hearing and vision difficulties, and a brain bleed left her with the mental capacity of a 13-year-old.