Spike and the car accident

A few years back I'd been out for a night in Watford with Russ and Chimpy. As we were driving back home, there was a car in front of us which suddenly seemed to lose control and crashed into the central reservation.
We stopped the car, and went over to make sure the driver was ok. She said she was so I called the police but didn't bother with an amubulance. As we waited there for the police to arrive, the woman seemed quite worried, and she then got out her phone to call her boyfriend. She then started shouting and arguing with him, blaming him for the fact that she crashed. Apparently she'd been drinking and was on the phone to him when she crashed the car. She then told him that we'd called the police and she didn't know what to do, so he basically told her to run away before they got there.
There wasn't anywhere for her to go apart from fields, so she ran off into some fields so the police couldn't breatherlise her.
Ten minutes later the police arrived and we gave them statements of what happened. Then something I didn't expect happened. As we'd told them she'd been drink driving the chief polcie officer made a decission. He called back to base to get the dogs out to chase her, as well as the police helicopter.
It did seem a bit over the top to me, and I did feel quite sorry for the drunk woman lost in soem fields when suddenly she finds herself being chased by dogs and a helicopter.
I think looking back at it now I see why they were determined to track her. She could quite easily have killed someone (possibly us as we were behind her). I still find it quite funny though, imagining her surrounded by dogs and a helicopter spotlight over her in the middle of a field.