MERCURY NEWS: Seatbelt no guarantee against ejection from vehicle.

Not wearing seat belt saves man from becoming shish kabob.

In an article on New Hampshire's "Live Unrestrained or Die" status:

My son once slid sideways on the ice and ended up with a branch through the door of his car. If he'd been wearing a seatbelt, it would've skewered him.
Instead, the branch pushed him to the other side of the car," Clegg said. "So
no, I choose not to buckle, and I think it's baloney that the government would
tell me that I have to, or else."

Does that make it "Live Free And Live"?

[H/T 2 Drudge.]

Man survives plane crash because he undid his seatbelt.

BANGAU SAMUEL


Bangau's family actually held a funeral after a passenger list confirmed he was ona10-seater aircraft which crashed into the Indonesian jungle at Long Bawan in July, 2002.


Four days later Bangau, then 20, walked out of the jungle. Although his dad Yuni, who had been sitting next to him had died, Bangau escaped with only a few cuts.


An investigation later revealed he'd survived because he had undone his seatbelt, allowing him to be thrown clear of the aircraft as it disintegrated.

In the U.S., he would have been breaking the law for doing what it took to survive.

Floating upside down, restrained by seatbelt, driver dies.

Another victim of seatbelt use.

Man, wearing seatbelt, dies submerged in pond.

In a related story, Missouri's proposed primary seatbelt law is picking up steam.