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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.
For sure, anyone who has seen some of the videos of drink carts and luggage bouncing off the cabin ceilings during crazy turbulence shouldn't have any questions about the utility of seatbelts in less than catastrophic events.... Which of course is the goal even in 'crash' landings. There are crashes where seatbelts would obviously be worthless, but in anything short of that, you'll be happy that you weren't in a box with 300 human shaped dice being shaken up.
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.
this makes it sound like the driver intentiinally drove off the cliff in spite
Lmao, "Buckle up right now or I'll have to show you what happens!"
O'Doyle rules!
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.
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.
I was watching one air accident documentary where the plane dropped so hard that people who were unbuckled were launched into the ceiling and people found their phones and laptops in the back of the plane.
THIS!
THAT!