Seat belts are preferred. Without stating the obvious, here's why.
6:38 Typically, the patients that we see that are ejected from cars are among some of the most severely injured patients that we have. Most of them have severe head injuries coupled with severe, typically orthopedic injuries, broken bones, broken legs, and that is also coupled with blunt injuries to your liver and your spleen. So those patients are the ones we worry about the most. The ones that we don't worry about are the ones in the car who've had their seat belts on. Those patients are much less severely injured. Dr. Bruce Crookes, Trauma Doctor.
