Driver’s ed films of the 1950s and 1960s were made staking out “nightwatch” for car accidents. NONE of the moaning DYING victims or their families ever gave consent.
Police used to ever get some “order” at the scenes by letting people FILE past the cars on foot.
He was being charged with a bullsh** crime.
I was raised in a small town in Central Florida. When there was a serious accident in the area the citizens would flock to the scene. The ambulance had to come from 30 miles away and if it went through town people would close their shops, hop in their cars and follow it to the scene. The damaged car would be towed to one of the two dealerships in town and it would draw crowds for several days, especially if there were blood or tissue to be seen.
Sounds pretty cruel now, but that was the way of life in those days.
My dad was a deputy sheriff and made no attempt to keep people from walking up and looking at a body in a car. He felt they, especially the kids, needed to see, and smell, the results of an accident.