[calex59]

Well then both your parmedics and the Hwy patrolman are full of it or just haven’t had a lot of experience then. There are between 40 and 50 thousand car deaths a year. Are you going to tell me that every one of those was someone without a seat belt on? I have personally seen car accidents with dead people in their seat belts. To say something like “never have taken a dead person from a seat belt” is just idiotic.

[Yorlik803]

As a EMT, I never had to pull seat belted body out of a car, but I have had several die at the hospital due to internal injuries.
Seat Belts work great, but like any mechanical device, they are not perfect. The best way to survive a wreck is not to have one in the first place.