Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGER View Post
If you are injured, and your vehicle is impounded, they WILL search it (under the guise of "inventorying your property"). No warrant or consent required.
Not a "guise". Protection for the officer when you claim your $20,000 diamond ring was in the ashtray and it isn't there any longer, thus the officer must have stole it. Been down that road a ton of times with owners.

Admittedly, evidence found during inventories can and has been used against the owner of the vehicle.