Do people commonly die in car accidents even if they wear seatbelts?

Statistically speaking, and only for Germany: There were ~2.6m car accidents in 2017. This includes all of them, even very tiny ones with minimal damage. Around 300k of those included personal injuries or worse, so around 10%. Now the number of deaths by car accidents in 2017 was routhly 30k. So - again only statistically speaking - if you get into a car accident in Germany, theres roughly a 1% chance for you to die. In reality this will be heavily influenced by your driving style though. If you speed like crazy and drive recklessly, your chance to die (and also your chance to actually have an accident in the first place) will be a lot higher, obviously.

Sources:

number of accidents: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/73424/umfrage/unfaelle-im-strassenverkehr/

number of deaths: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/161724/umfrage/verkehrstote-in-deutschland-monatszahlen/

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