There is almost nothing LESS reliable than "eyewitness reports."
As a person who spent years as a criminal investigator, (death investigations, crash investigations, financial crimes, sex crimes, crimes against children, narcotics, etc) I can wholeheartedly attest to this fact.
Plus the instant people talk to each other, their minds begin to fill in gaps with things that don't make sense, and those things then become "Facts" to them, most of which never actually happened.