Assume any smart traffic / personal injury lawyer will go after: cam footage, cellular records, any car telemetry logging, video in the area, social media post on driving habits ...... maybe even vehicle service / maintenance / performance upgrade records. The possibilities are endless when there are $$$$ to be made. Better call Saul!
Assuming you don't get injured during the incident, the dashcam video can be deleted and if you format the memory card and start a fresh recording immediately it would possibly write to parts of the memory the deleted files would have reside, creating very difficult hurtles to overcome in any novice attempt to recover the deleted data. Hard drives write data 'deeper' than flash memory, so it doesn't take much to make recovering deleted data from flash memory impossible. [this is my intermediate level understanding of these things]
Just take a look at all the dash cam compilations out there. Half the clips are people posting their own incompetence or straight up fraud.
There's a lot of stoopid people out there!
The police are allowed to collect any evidence for the case. If they don't see it, then they won't take it, but I suspect they'll noticed the dashcam on the window (and my radar detector lol). Same for any cell phone related data. Just because you own the thing capturing the incriminating evidence doesn't mean it can't be used against you.
Just gonna throw out the fact that one could simply pull out the micro SD card and put it in whatever cavity won't be searched...
Huh, well yes that would be a viable alternative to allowing them any chance of recovering data. Crushing the microsd would also accomplish the same thing, as it's impossible to reconstruct damaged flash memory. I'm cheap so throwing it away wasn't an option, but it's only a $10 card and certainly worth losing $10 if it mitigates charges/law suit.
