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According to this page, you could attempt to argue "lack of causation" if there was no connection between you not wearing a seat belt and your passenger getting killed.
But, the person who died is buckled in. That's how I read it.
Yes, and that is my point: unless you wearing a seat belt somehow made the accident more likely to happen, it really doesn't seem like manslaughter applies here.
I think the unbelted passenger became the lethal projectile in this case (and somehow survived to be prosecuted).