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Originally Posted by Dean
The seatbelts are likely fine. A good inspection may be all they need. Unless it was replaced, I would give the driver's seat itself a good looking over, especially, the seat back.
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The driver's seat was repaired, though not as well as I'd like it to be. I'm replacing it as soon as I get my hands on a replacement. Enough people have put racing seats in their WRXes, that stockies aren't all that hard to come by.
As luck has it, all the belts in the car turned out to be fine on close inspection, except for the rear seat middle. That belt is anchored fairly near the impact point, and the collision appears to have damaged the retraction mechanism. I'm not sure that I'll ever trust that anchor point again, so I'm probably just going to remove that belt entirely, and limit the car to four passengers.
Seat belts often are replaced after significant accidents. Some are designed to essentially self-destruct in the process of holding you in place as you accelerate through several Gs.