There are a handful of situations where the seatbelt kills you. It's a sad reality, but the seatbelt isn't a perfect tool.

The problem is that people don't understand the idea of harm reduction.

The odds of getting injured or killed in any severity of accident goes up without a seatbelt. Even slamming your breaks becomes more dangerous if you're not strapped in. People have been killed in cars, without impact, because they weren't wearing a seatbelt during some sort of high-velocity maneuver.

The few cases of strangulation, or getting trapped in a burning vehicle because you couldn't reach the buckle, are so rare, and there's no way to measure actual lives saved, people don't properly calculate the risk.

But I think some people just don't like being told what to do and will be obstinate about things like safety requirements...