Cops wasting time with seat belt

If cops really wanted to save lives, how the heck does writing tickets for not wearing a seat belt help? I mean, think about it logically. How does a seat belt help? Ok, so if you are in an accident, the belt helps you not fly out right? Ok, I can understand that. But is that the best method to save lives? Think about this for a second. How many accidents result in deaths even with the occupants wearing seat belts? Umm...a lot. So, therefore, even a seat belt by itself doesn't always save a life; conversely, no accident, no death. So, wouldn't more lives be saved by focusing on preventing accidents rather than on seat belt usage? For example, which is more likely to result in a death? Scenario 1) A car is merging onto the highway right behind a semi doing 35 (cause those jerks can never accelerate fast enough) with another semi on the highway already barreling down at 55 mph and not able to merge over. In this situation, everybody is wearing a seat belt. If an accident occurs, what is the likelihood that the person in the car will die? I would say, pretty likely, squashed between two semis. Scenario 2) An obese American (oxymoron maybe?) driving a pickup truck drives off the road and hits a tree. He is not wearing a seat belt. How likely is it he will fly through the windshield? Does the fact that he isn't wearing a seat belt mean he is more likely to die? Doesn't his fatness wedge him into the truck? My answer is he won't be any more likely to die without a seat belt than wearing one. So to say, I would say a death is more likely in Scenario 1, with the caveat that if a person was going to die in Scenario 2, the seat belt wouldn't be factor.

I guess my whole point is like everything else, there is usually a better way when the government takes action. And, I am really, really mad that the government is paying Pixar to use the characters from the movie Cars to promote this crap. It just ain't worth it.