What people don't get is that in the best of circumstances, any LEO who approaches a pulled-over vehicle without his alarm-system set to "hair-trigger" is probably not long for this world. I'm lucky in a way because one o he frist times I was involved with a disabled vehicle I found myself being approached by somebody waving a small club around and yelling threats.
So, while I was hauling out the old "shootin' arn", I had a very strong, "This can NOT be happening" thing going on.
So I'm sort of in "expect the unexpected" mode when I approach a vehicle.
So I GREATLY appeciate the citizen who stays in the car, lets me see his hands and works with me.
Even after an accident with the victim sitting behind the wheel with a possibly serious head injury? Do you seriously expect an accident victim to be fully in control of his/her senses right after a crash?