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Of the last dozen or so fatal traffic accidents I've worked, I'd have to say that most of the accidents were very survivable...'cept either the driver or passenger was ejected due to not wearing a seat belt (by this, I mean other occupants in the vehicle survived with no major injury because of wearing their belt). NOTHING sucks worse in my job then having to notify a family of a fatal accident which the death of a family member was preventable. I hate telling people the other 2-4 people in the car are fine, but their loved one didn't wear a belt and was ejected and killed.
As for generating revenue, not all jurisdictions have the high costs attached to the tickets. If I look at the break down, my agency gets about $10 per ticket on a seat belt violation. When you look at the cost of me doing the stop...I doubt we're making more then a couple dollars. But, the cost of investigating a fatal vs a simple property damage or injury accident is close to 20x the cost to investigating agency (6-10 officers on scene, coroner, autopsy, death investigation, accident investigation, ect), and the public loves to see their roadway shut down for 3-6 hours. So there is my .02.