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| Britain |
| Car Crash Con Gang |
| 2006-08-30 |
| IT is close to midnight outside a pizza parlour - and four cars nearby are waiting to be crashed into innocent drivers so gangs can scam a fortune from fake insurance claims. A 6ft Asian with cropped hair who belongs to one of four gangs in the South East each pocketing £2million a year from the con, is to coordinate the night's kamikaze mayhem. In the next six hours two lorries will become victims, careering into the rear of cars which brake heavily in front of them. The truck drivers suspect nothing because in each case they have seen another car swerving in front of the motors they have hit. Unknown to them, the driver of the second car is also a gang member. While the accomplice's car speeds off, the lorry driver and "victim" exchange details. The trucker's insurance then pays out on a claim for vehicle damage - and maybe personal injury and hire of a replacement vehicle - filed by a crooked claims company. Sickeningly, while in it mainly for the money, the fraudsters get kicks from each crash, laughing at the terrified faces of drivers as they are run off the road at up to 70mph. Ten vehicles a night can be targeted. |
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| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-30 20:38 |
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| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-08-30 19:30 |