Agreed that if you are charged and don't appear that a default conviction will be entered into record.I am equally thinking that this might have occurred in another country. But what I mean is, in Canada, if you choose not to appear in court for traffic incident case, the case still proceeds. And if found guilty a charge and conviction is entered against you. Is that where you wanted clarification?
I have possessed a Canadian (Ontario) DL since 1996. This is the first I have heard that, the simple presence of a police officer at an accident scene would result in a ticket (a charge, as it were). While it's true, during the "dark times" of at-fault insurance, they were encouraged to find one driver at-fault, it was not a necessity.
Now, I cannot speak for all the provinces, of course. But the insurance companies present in Ontario, operate in all 13 regions. So, I suspect, they all operate with no-fault now -- meaning that officers are encouraged only to charge when someone has actually broken the law.