In article , "WW" wrote:

However seat belts are a different thing. Save me 3 times as I could
maneuver with out sliding on the seat an losing control. 1 a large dog at
night that could have been a child, hard to tell with oncoming lights. 2 a
deer that came out of the brush fast. 3 a idiot that came on the highway
with out stopping I was able to go off road and back on with good control..
Had a friend that refused to use seat belts, was injured because of this in
an accident. Second time he was killed when a drunk hit him and as the car
rolled he was ejected an car landed on him. His wife had belt on and
received a cut finger. WW

I'm a firm believer in seat belts. Some years back, there was an accident on
one of the country roads a mile or so from where we lived at the time. Someone
crossed the center line, not sure which driver, but the result was a head-on
collision at some 50mph each between a full-size pickup truck and a compact
car on the order of a Fiesta or something similar. The seatbelted elderly
couple in the Fiesta had ankle injuries. The UNbelted 30something driver of
the pickup was pronounced dead at the scene.