Leaving the Scene of an Accident for Wal_Mart

The one rule about the attendance policy that bothers me and I haven't had time to talk about until now is that you are not excused for being late if you have a car accident unless you go to the hospital. This is regardless of it being your fault or not. If you go to the hospital your excused. The reason this bothers me is because it seems to mean that there encouraging you to leave the scene of an accident. After all you have to wait for the police to get there so the police report can be filed. That could take 30 minutes to an hour or longer. am hoping that the assistant manager that told me this or the person that told him this got it wrong.