Buddy of mine is a police officer of 18 years. We got on the subject one day about seat belts and their safety, which carries with it the same arguments you see here in this thread. His response floored me, but summed it up pretty well. It was: "In all my years I've never had to unbuckle a corpse" . I jokingly said "you just have someone else do it?" to which he said that in all the accidents he'd responded to no one wearing a seat belt was ever dead at the scene. Some of his mororcycle accident stories will make you run out and buy the first helmet you see.

-R