Dancing while driving during the so-called #InMyFeelings (or #KeKe/#KiKi) challenge took a dangerous turn for an Iowa teenager last month when she was admitted into the intensive care unit after taking part in the viral stunt.
Anna Worden, 18, of Bettendorf, Iowa, was expected to be released from an Iowa City hospital this past Monday after her attempt to do the popular internet challenge on July 23 left her unconscious in the middle of a road, WQAD.com reported.
The #InMyFeelings challenge involves having someone record you stepping out of a moving car and dancing alongside it to the new Drake song of the same name
The dance fad, also known as the #KiKi or #KeKe challenge, started when a YouTuber named Shiggy posted a video of himself bopping to the catchy song earlier this month. Somehow the video evolved into people performing the dance after hopping out of a moving vehicle and it has led to more than a few fails, according to USA Today.
The danger of the act even led to the National Transportation Safety Board issuing a warning and various law enforcement agencies speaking out against it.
Worden was with friends in Bettendorf when the idea of doing the challenge first came up, the recent high school graduate told WQAD-TV.
"We were over by the round-about, and I thought it would be a fun idea to do the Kiki challenge," Worden said. "I tried, and the last thing I remember was opening the door. So apparently I got out and tripped and fell and hit my head."
An unconscious Worden was rushed to a local hospital and then transported by helicopter to another hospital in Iowa City, the television station reported.
"I had five minutes to give her a kiss and not know what was going to happen," her father Mike Worden told WQAD-TV. "I will always remember that."
Anna Worden was diagnosed with a fractured skull, blood clots in her ear, and bleeding on her brain.
"When we got here and I finally gained consciousness in the ICU, that's when it hit me like wow, I'm actually in the University of Iowa hospital because I tried to do some little challenge everyone's doing now, and I'm the one that got majorly hurt," Worden told WQAD-TV.
Worden is now re-learning how to walk and will be doing outpatient therapy.
"Be more careful about the challenges and fads that are going around," Worden said of her experience. "It may seem fun, and it may seem easy, but at the same too, they could be so dangerous."
The dance craze, and its dangers, do not appear to be going away any time soon. Jaylen Norwood, 22, made his way onto ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last month and had his "Kiki" challenge video go viral after he was struck by a car doing it in Boynton Beach, Florida, WPEC-TV reported.
When Norwood, who was not seriously injured in the incident, was asked if he would do it again knowing the risk, he said, "In a heartbeat."
"Most of my friends would call me lame before this but now I'm the hottest thing out in Palm Beach County," Norwood told the television station.
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