Defective seat belts have injured many people in Missouri. In product liability lawsuits, lawyers for injured people investigate the facts to determine if the seat belt did not function properly or was defectively designed. In a car wreck, people rely upon seat belts to absorb the enormous forces exerted on their bodies. When seat belts fail, the energy and forces meant to be distributed to the seat belt are instead absorbed by the car wreck victim, which often results in serious personal injury.

Attorneys that handle product liability lawsuits against car manufacturers for defective seat belts often refer to them as "crashworthiness cases." In a crashworthiness case, the injured victim claims the car manufacturer was negligent in the design of the seat belt system or that the seat belt was somehow defective.
Over the years, there have been numerous lawsuits involving different types of seat belt injuries.

Here are the most common types of seat belt injury lawsuits: