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Cop Doesn’t Stop for Accident

While driving home from work today, there was a wreck at the I-215/I-15 interchange. This is hardly exciting (just take a look at all the other videos I’ve posted here of close calls at the same place), but there was a rather interesting thing that happened with this one.
The wreck was still quite new – the drivers were still getting out of their cars to see what happened. As I passed cars in the left lane, I noticed that there was a highway patrolman there (UHP 058 or 059, I don’t remember which precisely, and I can’t tell which from the video). He started trying to get over to stop and help (you can see his turn signal start going), but as he passes the wreck, he seems to think better of it and drives off. I followed him past several exits before losing sight of him, and he never seemed to return to the scene.
I found this rather odd; but before totally jumping on the patrolman for not stopping at the scene of the accident, please understand that I don’t know if he found out there was another cop already on the way, if he decided it wasn’t a bad enough wreck to stop (the cars were unscathed; even the license plate holders weren’t bent or broken), if he had more pressing business elsewhere, or if it was against policy in someway for him to stop.
I just found it interesting, and as with the rest of my videos, decided to post it.

Tags: Wreck