Visible crew/equipment: When the kid is on the motorcycle looking for his wife, you can see a camera and crew reflected in the black helmet. It's when we see the traffic jam and the rental van shot.
Visible crew/equipment: When Vicky and Chuck tell Sarah and Leo to take the baby with them, he's hurriedly placed in the baby carrier. At the start of the next shot, just as they all rush toward the motorcycle, at the right side of the screen one of the location shoot's huge lights (similar to a Mole-Richardson) is visible, along with (presumably) two crew members standing beside it. At least two of the crew's lights can be seen in the DVD's Special Features, "Creating the Perfect Traffic Jam." (01:40:10)
Answer: It could have been salvaged and worked on, plus he was calling people in authority. There would have been an investigation into the crash, which leads back the young boy and the comet.