Highway Robbery
Summary:
A new hazard has appeared on our roads. Fraudsters are “manufacturing” accidents and making a fat profit from the results. Find out more about this fast-spreading crime.
Author: Dot Piper
Beware; we have modern-day “Dick Turpins'” at work on our roads. Not quite
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- Highway Robbery
- A new hazard has appeared on our roads. Fraudsters are “manufacturing” accidents and making a fat profit from the results. Find out more about this fast-spreading crime.
Innocent drivers are being targeted in this frightening new crime which appears to spreading across the country. Effectively, we have an ambush situation.
This is what can happen:
- You may be following a vehicle, generally an ageing car or van, onto a roundabout or slip road. This vehicle, which often has no brake lights, brakes hard and you cannot avoid slamming into it.
- There may be two cars involved. One is in front of you and another one may veer into its path, the car in front of you brakes hard and you crash into it.
These “set up” crashes commonly occur at really busy roundabouts or ( cheap mortgages ) motorway slip roads. The instigators of these ( remortgages ) incidents are skilled at pinning the blame on the innocent motorist. These modern day highwaymen work in teams, owning and managing repair garages and car hire companies. These firms present falsely inflated invoices for work carried out, hire of a car whilst the car is off the road and so on. They then make a bogus claim ( medical insurance ) on the blameless motorist's insurers, often inflating it for maximum pay-out and claiming for compensation for so-called injuries to the driver and passengers. Often the vehicle which they use is an old banger, which will probably contain the maximum number of passengers, all claiming to have been injured in some way and seeking compensation for this and probably loss of earning too. In this way a minor accident claim can escalate into a insurance claim of £20,000 or more.
