A seat belt protects the passengers when you have a car accident.
yes because it holds you back so you dont go flyng forward when you have to stop unexpectedly. Also, in a bad enough accident the belt across the waist can cut into your stomach. This has happened.
Keeps you in the car and out of the windshield when you have an accident!
Astron Belt happened in 1983.
YES
You are going to have to replace the seat belts that are stuck after the accident. They are the ones that were in use by a person at the time the accident happened. They are no longer safe to use even if you can get them to work. Find a Yukon in a salvage yard that was hit in the rear or side and those seat belt will be fine to use.
They could slide out from under the belt in an accident.
Yes. It is possible to have enough speed that even a seat belt would not save you but traffic deaths per number of vehicles have gone down since the laws requiring them have been enacted.
60%
unbuckle the seat belt!
If you seat belt is faulty you should have it replaced. If it fails on you in an accident you may be killed.
Corn Belt derecho happened in 1998.