some scrap yards are told to hold the car and not touch it until insurance assesors and police etc have finished with them..... back in2001 i worked i a breakers yard we had a 4 month old clio come in, it had been recovered from a tree near weston super mare lol, driver was pissed lipped a kerb at peed the car launched in to the air and landed upside down in the tree, we had to holdf the car 4 monthjs before getting the go ahead to strip it