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A New Zealand driver who used a fake car seatbelt to fool police was killed when it failed him in a head-on crash.

Ivan Segedin refused to wear a seatbelt while driving and had been fined 32 times in the past five years for not wearing one, a coroner's court was told.

Mr Segedin, 39, died in a crash on July 22 last year from multiple injuries when his car crossed the road and collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle on the North Island, coroner Carla na Nagara said. "Ultimately, Mr Segedin's actions in driving without a seatbelt have cost him his life in an accident that he may well have survived had he worn one," she said.