lap belt

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For a vehicle to earn a "good" rating, the crash test dummy should not record excessive risk of injury to the body parts and should remain correctly positioned during the crash without sliding forward beneath the lap belt.

From Reuters

The lap belt is designed to hold the body in the seat.

From Washington Post

In addition to a lap belt and upper body restraint installed by the helicopter manufacturer, FlyNYON provided passengers on the doomed flight with a nylon fall-protection harness that could be released only by cutting a tether with a provided knife or unscrewing a locking carabiner at their backs, investigators said.

From Washington Times

Crew members went row by row to check on passengers and a flight attendant described reaching Row 14 to find a woman still restrained in her seat by her lap belt, but whose upper torso, arms and head had been pulled outside the plane through a broken window.

From Washington Post

The passengers describe seeing the woman still buckled by a lap belt with her head, torso and arm hanging out of the broken window.

From Washington Times