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This exactly.
Bench seats are great for hanging out with afore mentioned dog and/or girl.
Bench seats are super shitty in any sort of side impact collision. There's nothing keeping you in place except your safety belt.
I mean, isn't that what the seat belt is for? I can't imagine the typical front seat in a modern car keeping you put in a collision either. They're definitely shaped comfort-first, and at best keep you from jostling around on uneven roads.
It's one of the benefits of a bucket seat, and you'll note front seats have a bucket shape both on the back and the bottom. This does a LOT to keep a human in place, especially if the seatbelt is holding the human down into the bucket. Lots of surface area on the side of the leg and torso for the bucket shape. OTOH with a bench seat there's nothing at all keeping the human in place, there's just the 3 places where the strap crosses the human and those don't do very much. Seat belts are designed to keep you down in the seat.
That’s why I got the car with naturally aspirated 460hp. The bucket seats. Safety first every time!