Seeking smallest knife/tool with good seatbelt cutting ability and scissors

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I have used a Swissmemory for a few years as my edc, but would like to have some better way to cut seat belts for those emergencies which will hopefully never occur. I know that a serrated sheepsfoot type of blade will cut seat belts as a similar blade on my Swisstool RS cut a seatbelt "like butter" to free my unfortunate father who was the poor fellow who used that belt on the day it malfunctioned and would not release despite the efforts of numerous mechanics. I am also familiar with dedicated seat belt cutting tools recessed in angled channels of some rescue knives, but I have not seen such a knife or multi-tool in the 3 inches long or shorter category which I prefer for an edc item.

My ideal knife/tool would have a seat belt cutting implement (blade or dedicated channel), scissors, and simple screwdriver device like the nail file/screwdriver of my swissmemory and be under 3 inches long or so. I'm willing to use a separate flash drive as I doubt serrations will be added to the swissmemory blade for another 50 years.

Thanks for your help
 
Disclaimer: I don't know how difficult it is to cut through a seat belt.

But 3 inches is about 76mm. This restriction removes the 84mm, 91mm and 111mm Victorinox SAKs. The SAK selector at SOSAK only gives the following:

58mm Victorinox MiniChamp with the "orange peeler/scraper" after I selected "small sheepsfoot".

Maybe a Leatherman Micra scissors is strong enough?
 
i'd get a Bokerplus Rescom and attach to it a Victorinox classic for instance....the Kershaw two can is a great keychain scissors (but no screwdriver)....
 
I didn't even know that a SAK selector at SOSAK existed. I just thought of another way to solve my problem and will start another thread about it.
 
You could buy a MiniChamp, which has a so-called "emergency blade" that is much like a wharncliffe blade. You could add mini-serrations to that, if you really feel the need, with a rat-tail diamond sharpening tool or even a jeweler's file.

- Tim
 
i would think any serrated knife would do the trick-perhaps one of the smaller tech knives like a kershaw, or the like
 
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