Your insurance company should be helping you with your decision. If there were no injuries and only vehicle damage get a estimate of repairs and settle for that amount. If there were injuries then you would get vehicle repair and medical costs. I dont know how they can estimate medical costs unless it was something minor. When a person gets a neck or back injury that is something hard to estimate the medical costs because it could go on forever. Your best bet would be do either get a mediator that is versed in car/med damages or an attorney that can best guide you to reach a settlement amount.
Give way
The police officer does not own the police car, the jurisdiction he works for owns it, and yes a uniformed officer can drive an unmarked vehicle.
Yes. The officer can ask the driver if he or she will voluntarily submit to the inspection of the vehicle. The driver can refuse which will be noted on the report. However that does not prevent the officer from searching the vehicle and if there is a suspicion of drugs the officer can request a canine search as well as visual. In some states, refusal to allow an officer to search a vehicle results in being taken into custody and/or other action.
Cross the intersection, proceed to the right lane and stop as soon as you can.
YES
DMV officer
A police officer has that discretionary power .
do corr-field officer bear firarms an asigned a motor vehicle
It's the vehicle license number so a police officer can track it to see who owns it and if another officer has stopped the vehicle before.
While remaining cognizant of your own and others safety, if possible make sure that there is a path for the emergency vehicle to proceed.
If a police officer takes custody of a vehicle, it is usually said he impounds the vehicle.
Stop, look both ways, and then proceed if no vehicle is coming.