Why do people say "she died because she wasnt wearing a seatbelt"?

Question:
So the seatbelt actually caused her death? Its more like doing 95 into a truck kill her. ("her" is a fictional person)

Answers:

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Safety belts saved over 12,000 American lives in 2001. However, during this same year, nearly two-thirds (60 percent) of passenger vehicle occupants killed in traffic crashes were unrestrained.

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Research has shown that lap/shoulder belts, when used properly, reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passenger car occupants by 45 percent and the risk of moderate to critical injury by 50 percent. For light truck occupants, safety belts reduce the risk of fatal injury by 60 percent and moderate-to-critical injury by 65 percent.

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Safety belts should always be worn, even when riding in vehicles equipped with air bags. Air bags are designed to work with safety belts, not by themselves. Air bags, by themselves, have a fatality-reducing effectiveness of only 12 percent.

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Safety belt use saves society an estimated $50 billion annually in medical care, lost productivity, and other injury related costs.

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Conversely, safety belt non use results in significant economic costs to society. The needless deaths and injuries from safety belt non use result in an estimated $26 billion in economic costs to society annually.The cost of unbuckled drivers and passengers goes far beyond those killed and the loss to their families. We all pay--in higher taxes and higher health care and insurance costs.

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For more information go to http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov

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Usually it is because a seatbelt would have restrained the driver from being ejected fron the car.

Why would anyone...?

Because if she WAS wearing one, she most likely wouldn't have died.

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I see your point though, if someone hadn't smashed her car she wouldn't have died, either.

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If you get hit in the rear by another speeding car, it is not necessarily the fictional person's driving speed that caused the accident. The seatbelt would have stopped the person from, say, hitting their head in the dashboard or being ejected from the car through the windshield.

An Accident occurs which version is more believable?

A lot of people die because they weren't wearing a seat belt.

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Usually, the car rolls over onto them, after they were thrown out,
BECAUSE they were not belted.

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I THINK PEOPLE MEAN NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEATH.....SEAT BELTS SAVED MY SON .....NO DOUBT ABOUT IT....

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no the belt did not cause her death lay something on your passenger seat drive and then slam on the brakes see what happens to your object the same thing happend to her

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Because, "She wasn't wearing a helmet" is reserved for motorcyclists, even in states where they are not required.
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