[brityank]

I’d also guess that if the injured guy was caught in the mangled vehicle, and couldn’t be extracted in time to apply a belt, the injured guy couldn’t have tightened a tourni that was biult into his own clothes, either.

But someone else could reach in and apply it; tough to put it on with a mangled wreck in the way, in the short time you have when bleeding out.

Great idea.

[buckeye49]

I once used my hands as a tourniquet. If he couldn’t even do that, it must have been a pretty desperate situation!

[flowerplough]

I suppose there will be times when the aid man could reach in to the trapped guy and tie the built-in, but couldn’t quite reach in, wrap around, and tie a normal tourni, but...