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This.
Crush injuries / crush syndrome can mean that removing compression from a major muscle mass floods the body with the products of muscles breaking down, leading to massive renal failure and death.
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I can certainly think of situations where a large object causes catastrophic injury but at the same time prevents massive blood loss by remaining in place.
Since loss of blood volume is a major factor in many deaths, frequently by causing brain injury that victims succumb to some time later, removing a vehicle without all the medical support required to treat the injuries is probably a bad idea.
The chances of making a bad situation even worse with an unplanned lift of several tens of tons of vehicle are probably quite high as well.