Clooney Accident Footage - Worst Time Stamp Placement Ever?

Of course this happens regularly. Due to the relative crudeness of CCTV time stamps (which, upon reflection, is something that should have been advanced many ages ago) it's impossible to overlay it without losing some detail. The key is to place it in an area you're not interested in watching.

Look closely at the video and you can tell it's being filmed by a cell phone, and that only a portion of the screen is visible due to the relative size of the time stamp versus the size of the screen. The edges of the monitor appear at both the left and top in a couple of shots indicating the top left of the screen is being filmed.

Ostensibly this camera was watching the property/area the truck was leaving, not the highway, making placement of this time stamp appropriate. It is unreasonable to expect the owner would be monitoring the highway for some magnanimous purpose on the off-chance there would be a collision right there, especially with the PPF being so low so as to only provide evidence that an event occurred at a certain date and time and nothing more.

This brings up an interesting thought regarding time stamps in that nearly universally (Axis being an exception that I can think of, using a separate black bar above the image frame) time stamps have been crude text simply pasted over top of a video. You generally can't change the font, size, split the elements into separate lines, etc. Nor can you make them more of a watermark, or even embedded like time code and then activated/deactivated during playback and exported only as needed.

If the film industry figured this out decades ago, perhaps the CCTV industry should finally get on board.