Why so long to process accident scenes?

Unless you are the one responsible to come up with a report I would say its hard to condemn an officer for taking all the time needed to do their job. I get it looking from the outside in you say get that junk off the road but if someone died that is a pretty big deal. They no longer can defend themselves. This picture you posted is a mess and even without the investigation would take a good amount of time to clean up safely. Complaints would be better spent on the drivers on this stretch of road which seems a bit sketchy. Thinking it must be a stretch with few passing lanes and some drivers going the posted limit and others not liking it.

 

I asked police officer this when I was stuck for long time.

He said whenever someone dies everything always takes a long time.
Something about bring in specialists recreating the accident scene for a report.
Every little details has to be documented.

 

If you think about it, a trial if there is one will be a year or more down the road. They need to document everything at the time of the accident to preserve evidence at the time of crash. Yes it’s an inconvenience, think about a family getting a knock on the door.

 

I gotta agree with tiny tim, it's not only up north where they take hours to clean up accidents. Ontario is absolutely the slowest in clearing accident scenes, that can't be a coincidence. Even non-fatal accidents on the 401 closes everything, sometimes even both directions. I understand closing the direction where the accident happened but why do they also close the other direction?

Even in quebec they will will at least leave a lane open.

 

Y’all don’t realize all the evidence at a crash scene that has to be processed. I was a reconstructionist. By the time we finished a bad crash the report can be up to 30 pages.

 

If they skip one step, a good attorney will use that in court.

 

Coroner is flown in from Toronto scene can’t be opened till he/she signs off .. if flying weather is bad it can take 24 hrs or if they are crashing on 400 series highways they get priority over a class b highway .

 

No coroners in Northern Ontario??? I find that hard to believe.