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Surely the current road accident approach is mostly related to insurance niceties - either to avoid the risk of being accused of causing harm to the injured or potentially injured party or, perhaps as likely, to satisfy the injured party's need to make a personal injury claim, vindicated by the evidence that they had to be cut out of the vehicle.
I am reminded of a story related by a Scottish Traffic Policeman (or so claimed - there seemed to be enough corroborating information to suggest validity)
It involved a newly arrived, generously sized, American lady tourist and a Mondeo rental car with as many recorded miles as the lady's journey from the airport to the location of a minor bumper tapping accident. About 18 miles as I recall.
The story related the need to cut the roof off the Mondeo because the lady insisted she could not extricate herself. The Ambulance crew could not move her so the Fire service become involved.
Apparently, some 2 years later, the attending police officer remembered the incident and thought to check to see what had later transpired.
There was still an open file and the lady was claiming $58k US dollars (that would be about 30 years ago dollars) for modifications to the Kitchen at her home in NYC as a result of injuries supposedly suffered.
Presumably such considerations in respect of insurance arrangements are less common trackside?
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