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The actual answer is that the seatbelt is there to keep your ragdoll ass from bouncing off the ceiling during heavy turbulence.
I read this horrible post a few years ago where a PoS passenger didn't buckle up. So the car drove off a cliff, her body flew and killed people in the back seat who were buckled up. The driver survived since he was buckled in.
Grew up with this...
https://youtu.be/mKHY69AFstE?si=l3cIZk4JJLoduGT5
...the UK didn't pull their punches with road safety ads in the 90s. Sorry for YouTube.
Australia had ads like that too.
https://youtu.be/jyYTPRX1CCQ
They relaunched this one a few years ago because of how effective it was in the 90s.
America did this too, but it was too hardcore for me to share clips, so here's the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Asphalt
Had to watch a couple of these in American driving school in high school.