After yet another inordinately long wait in a police induced traffic jam recently, I eventually slowly passed the scene of a bad accident. Rubber necking as I do, not to observe any gore, but to check the number of police vehicles and personnel. I counted four squad cars, two motorbikes and a large number of police standing around talking to one another. On escaping the queue we observed another police motorcyclist propelling his bike at great speed with blues and twos on, towards the crash. Presumably he had been told of the RTB and did not wish to miss it. Before senior police officers totally abdicated their responsibility to supervise the lower ranks, road traffic accidents used to be called RTAs. Nowadays, with their senior officers so busy planning where the next speed camera is to be placed, the boys and girls in blue are free to indulge themselves in what they now call RTBs, roadside tea breaks. If I was a criminal, I would steal a car, drive it into a wall on one side of town and then have my accomplices drive me to the opposite end of town. By the time we had done this the whole of the Sussex police force would be attending their fortuitous RTB and my gang would have the pick of the banks to rob in peace. Everybody understands that the victims of road accident deserve a full and thorough investigation to be carried out on their behalf. We also understand that there are some police officers who want to clear the roads and then get on with their job, without quite so much bureaucracy. Why not use modern and older technology? On arrival at the accident one police person concentrates on the statements and communications, the other on keeping the traffic flowing (like they do in most other countries). If the accident is serious or fatal, then on arrival the accident investigator should place one-metre rules in strategic positions around the scene, for scaling purposes. Then using a sophisticated unmanned drone or helicopter, with video and still cameras attached, digitally survey the scene. Then, after photographing the scene from the ground, the area could be cleared. The digital records could then be fed into a computer back at base (or even fed directly to base from the scene) and analysed using the sophisticated computer programs that the police have already got.