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Highways england has details of road incidents and what they did for a number of incidents, makes intresting reading.
Somebody gets killed /injured seriously, your mum dad sister/brother/partner/freind/workmate, and some motorist stuck for a while or having to divert getS upset, not at the death and suffering but having THEIR SMALL PATHETIC WORLD AND TIMELINE DELAYED FOR THE CLEAR UP/INVESTIGATION TO HAPPEN.
ONE DAY YOULL GET THAT PHONE CALL KNOCK ON THE DOOR TO SAY SOMEONE CLOSE HAS DIED OR IS HOSPITAL HAVING SUFERED LIFE CHANGING INJURIES.
Hopefully youd want it investigated the wrong doer imprisoned or fined, or would you just be happy for the scene to be cleared with a JCB, and a few bollards.
It's not only about criminal prosecutions either. Understanding the circumstances of a collision like that will be critical to making sure that civil liability is properly allocated. A person was killed; expensive vehicles (and cargo?) were destroyed. How do you make sure that the person's family and the affected businesses are properly compensated without knowing what happened? That's people's lives (can those left behind afford to keep the house, support their kids etc) and livelihoods that you're dealing with.
A friend of mine was in a near death accident (scene preserved until they got the okay from the hospital), when it came to court the prosecution were able to use evidence previously collated on the junction after a death there, so can be useful in other cases rather than just the case in hand*. Driver in my mates case got 9pts & £2500 fine.
* you'd hope they'd also use the info to help make road layouts safer too, but in my experience they just lower the speed limits