Cars crashing after police call off pursuits?

[Resurrection]

It seems to be a regular occurance that driver's attempting to escape from police crash AFTER the police call off the chase because they state it was geting too dangerous to continue.

These stories are hard to believe because if a driver has evaded police they wouldn't need to drive as dangerously as when they were being pursued. So why do the police reports often state that they came across the crashed vehicle a short time after they called off the chase?

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ca...227-198jw.html

I am not against the police doing their job. They have a difficult decision to make as some people will put their lives and those of others at risk just to get away.

I've seen the aftermath of a police chase gone wrong. In the early 90s we were hanging around the centre of Dandenong one night when a couple of police cars with lights blazing tore past us. Being young and bored we took of after them and arrived a few minutes later at a crash scene. A police divvy van had just cleaned up a taxi at an intersection. The police quickly shut down the area.

So what are people's opinions about these "crashed after the pursuit was called off" reports?