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ORIGINAL: FelinePersuasion
My dad's brother in law almost died in a car crash because his seat belt wouldn't come undone and he was upside down and in a ditch full of water that was quickly filling Waynes Car. He was lucky he was not drowned. It might be a small percent, but yes seat belts do cause injury or even death instead of preventing them.

....sad as that circumstance is, it is relatively rare compared to the number of times that seat belts save lives. Wear a seat belt but carry a knife in the car to cut it if necessary.......

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I used to work for a company that did accident reconstruction and provided safety recommendations to major automobile manufacturers.

Your odds of surviving a major crash plummet if you are not wearing a restraint of some sort.  Flopping around inside the car or, worse, being ejected means you get swept up with a wisk broom and hauled off to the morgue.

I am not sure what you mean by "worse injuries," since a 20 mph crash with a seat belt gives you a bruise on your chest, whereas not wearing one means you will probably get spine and brain injuries as your head cracks the windshield.

While it is possible that .001% of all accidents with seat belts cause worse injuries, the 99.99% of all accidents where they protect against worse injuries would be the color I am putting my money on at the roulette table.

Sinergy

sinergy  being a 4-9 lady I can tell you what happend to met he last time i wore a seat belt and had an accident....I ruptured 3 discs...becasu the seatbelt doesnt fit ME right  I am one of the few people that can be subjected to unnecessary injuries should an accident occur...I have had intestinal bruising with the last accident as well...I was in the er and had at least a weeks worth of excrutiating gi pain due tot he injury casue by the stress of the seat belt on my abdominal wall...the force of the seatbelt casued buising and i actually had to be monitored as if it hadnt resolved i may have endedup with a colostomy becasue of internal injuries...children are also at a danger to this .    During the last accident i also had a nasty cut on my neck again fromthe seat belt .... seat belt ARE NOT made for someone of my size....and like i said i am an adult and since the fact that i have had a head on collision while not wearing a seat belt and had no injuried...out side of the usual whiplash kindof thing and was injured in an accident where i did in fact wear the darn thing...well i donot feel it is fair that i be peanalized for being built anatomically wrong for the seatbelts currently onthe market...what am i supposed to do??  risk firther injury and wear one....not to mention that now that i have spent more than 10K on plastic surgery to reconstruct my boobs...well honestly Iknow that the force of a car accidetn and the seat bel that the implants may very well either become displaced...or even rupture!

I do not think that it is fair or even withint he scope of the law that i shouldbe forced to wear a seat belt!  but that is just me...And so i will pay the $100ticket i got last week...and wellif i get another one i will pay that one as well.  just my humble opinion!

little red