I've heard this is actually caused by the drunk not tending to tense up in expectation of the crash, so they ragdoll and bounce, where the sober people in the struck vehicle are frightened and tense and instead of flopping they just snap. Also the sobers are more often restrained, and the drunk unrestrained. So the drunk flies out and ragdolls, while the sober take all that force in their tensed body, and weather the entirity of the g-force of going from 'speed' to 'stopped' or 'speed another direction', while also being trapped within a crushing vehicle.

Our witch in DnD was driving home one night, drunk and unrestrained, and fell asleep. He ended up jumping the median and going head-on into a semi at a combined speed of well over a hundred MPH. Had he been restrained, he would have been killed by g-force from the sudden stop and the fact that his engine ended up in his driver's seat. Because he was unconscious and floppy, he flew out, broke some ribs, got a scalp lac from the windshield that needed stitches, blew out his knee and had some thorough edema on it, but was at DnD walking around six days later.

I will say that not one of us had the vaguest bit of sympathy for him once he mentioned that he'd been drunk when it happened, and he's no longer a part of the group due to having his license revoked from the DWI. He may also be in jail; I don't have any contact with him anymore. Nice guy, overall, but we were all quite blunt about telling him we were happy he hit a semi head on, rather than a family vehicle of innocent bystanders he could have hurt. Feel bad for the poor damn trucker who prolly had a heart attack from the whole thing, though.

I'm also a *huge* advocate of seatbelts, but in a very tiny handful of situations you are, in fact, better off *outside* of the vehicle than in it, and the speed and violence involved in a DWI crash seem to most often be the ones where 'ejection' could actually be preferable.