In the movie "I, Robot" a robot rescued the Will Smith character after a car accident at the expense of letting a young girl die, a key plot aspect.

Judge against the 2004 film 'I, Robot'. True: in the film, Will Smith's character (Spooner) was saved by a robot after a car accident, the robot chose him over a young girl who then died, and this backstory is significant to the plot. Mostly true: the core facts are right, but a minor detail differs (for example, how the accident happened). Mixed: the rescue happened, but the girl did not die, or the episode was trivial to the plot. Mostly false: the scene exists, but its key facts are materially different. False: no such scene or backstory appears in the film.

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1. E1 I, Robot (film) - Wikipedia Wikipedia

   “Del Spooner is a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department who hates and distrusts robots after one rescued him from a car crash while allowing a 12-year-old girl to drown—based purely on cold logic and odds of survival.”

2. E2 I, Robot (film) - Wikipedia Wikipedia

   “He suffers from survivor's guilt as a result of the accident and blames the cold and logical robots for rescuing him instead of the young girl in the other car.”

3. E3 I, Robot Static Mass · 2 June 2013

   “The robot that saved him calculated that his chance of survival was greater than that of a 12-year-old girl and made the choice to save his life instead of hers.”

Wikipedia's plot summary for the 2004 film (E1) says Spooner distrusts robots because one rescued him from a car crash and let a 12-year-old girl drown, choosing on odds of survival. The cast entry (E2) ties this backstory to his survivor's guilt and his hostility toward robots, and an independent review (E3) describes the same calculation. Together they show the rescue, the girl's death and the episode's importance to the plot, which meets the criteria for true.