I would imagine that she may have lost her job if she'd gone ahead because hospital admin were well aware of the situation at that point.
A trucker friend in the US said that it's standard to test the blood, regardless of fault in an accident, if you hold a CDL, or risk losing it but they still have to give consent or the police have to have a warrant or the person has to be under arrest. None of those criteria were met. Friend also says they wonder if that was the impetus behind the cop's behaviour, that they are aware of this so tried to push the issue and hope the staff would just capitulate. So that clears up why they were trying to get blood samples, even though the trucker wasn't at fault.
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