Exactly! Punishing people after accidents, however much at fault they may be, is far less important or useful than preventing them in the first place.

I wish more people would invest more energy into prevention than catching the bad guy after the fact.

Cameras are a great CYA, but they are not going to prevent crime & accidents from happening.

Punishing someone from running away from an accident, however, is important. These people are not good for society and we need to make them a pariah, so people push away from that behavior.

continued human operation of commuter motor vehicles is a bug not a feature