I’m a statistic. I was riding in the passenger front seat when a car came out from behind a parked truck and hit us square on the side midway between the front and back doors. If I hadn’t been wearing a seatbelt I would have been thrown straight through the windshield.
The very few times that seatbelts contribute to a death are reported because they’re wild exceptions to the rule. Who would clock on a link saying, “Seatbelts saved 26 lives in the US last week?”