I’d be willing to bet ten to one that the trooper didn’t want to get his shoes dirty or was too lazy to actually go into the ditch and check out the car and that he merely observed it from the road.
The sad part is the possibility that the woman in the car might have been still alive at the time.
And for that the lazy cop gets a paid vacation.
Five or six years ago I was returning home when the car in front of me suddenly swerved to the left and went straight into a deep ditch. I pulled over, called 911, and was getting ready to go down into the ditch when a trooper arrived. He told me to stay where I was, looked down and declared that the driver was drunk and they would get him out when the tow truck arrived. The next day I read in the paper that the driver had had a heart attack and died before reaching the ER. Oh, how I wish I had told the trooper where to go and gone down to the car!