I was involved in a traffic accident in 1992 that wasn't chaser related, but it is a scenario that could easily play out during a chase.
My wife and I were traveling north on a busy 2-lane highway in Alabama (331). People use it to get to the beaches of the Florida Panhandle. We topped a little hill and were immediately hit head on by a man trying to pass on a double yellow section of the highway. He was going 70mph and we were going 55mph, so it was quite an impact. The double yellow was there on a long straightaway because the little hill hid a small dip in the road that was hardly noticable. He was trying to get to the condo that he had rented before check-in time, and that was obviously very important to him. He didn't consider the potential consequences of his actions until after the fact, and suddenly getting to the condo in time seemed as insignificant to him as it did to us.
I endured a torturous period of reconstructive surgery on my face (it didn't help my looks any since they charged extra for that
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), right foot, and right knee. My wife's sturnum was split from top to bottom and nearly punctured her lungs. Everybody miraculously survived, though he had to be revived.
Had my wife and I not been wearing our seat belts (before it was law), the man would have been responsible for orphaning our 5 children (who by chance were not in the vehicle). That could have been the consequences of his actions for something as insignificant as getting to his condo in time.
You could take this scenario and replace "condo" with "tornado" and have the same potential consequences.
I don't want anybody here to think that this is an attack on driving habits in the heat of the moment because it is not. I do hope it encourages a moments pause to think about what could happen
before an action is taken. Is it something that you could live with?