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'car Crash For Cash' Brothers Face Prison Sentence

'car Crash For Cash' Brothers Face Prison Sentence

Britons have a love/hate affair with the motor car

. On the one hand, we have the petrolhead camp, who love the automotive world with a zealous passion, who believe that a car is an extension of the driver's personality, who laugh in the face of public transport initiatives and who decry any attempt to curb their love of excessive speed and irresponsible behaviour.

On the other side of the crash barrier, there are those who decree that the motor vehicle is a dangerous product. Rather like electricity, it's an essential tool, but a lethal one in the wrong hands. They say they both the car, and those who love to drive them so quickly, are dangerous for the long-term health of the environment, and potentially pose an immediate risk to the wellbeing of anyone who gets in the way of their front bumper.

Both sides make valid points. The BBC reported this week that motorists in Oxfordshire celebrated the switching off of speed cameras in the county by suddenly driving very quickly past the Gatsos that still had film in them. This is quite an amusing story, one could argue. However, if the same news story was bookended by the report of a small child being knocked over and killed thanks to the same relaxation, it wouldn't be funny in the slightest.

Since Irish scientist Mary Ward fell under the wheels of a steam-powered vehicle driven by her cousins in 1869 (according to Wikipedia) and became the first recorded car crash victim, we have never been far away from potential tragedy when we get behind the wheel.

The vast, vast majority of car accidents are caused involuntarily. Yes, they can caused by ill health, confusion, bad weather conditions, inexperience, and of course reckless idiocy, but they are all accidents, hence the name. Nobody decides to go and have a car crash on purpose.

Or do they?

The Daily Mail reported this week on the fascinating tale of two brothers from Lancashire who, upon reluctantly admitting that their legitimate car accident management company wasn't drawing in the punters, decided to be a little more proactive about how they gathered business.

The brothers, essentially, paid to borrow people's already-damaged cars and then hired a driver to deliberately cause the 'perfect accident' in which they would be struck from behind at a relatively low speed. This would ensure that the driver behind would automatically assume the crash was his fault (even though the crooks' car would have had its brake lights deactivated) and admit liability.

The two brothers would then submit a huge claim, complete with phoney invoices for car hire, repair and collection to the innocent driver's insurance company, who would pay it without contest. The resulting thousands of pounds were shared out between the brothers, the owners of the dummy cars, and the drivers who had orchestrated the accident.

The scam netted the brothers several millions of pounds. They were only caught when a member of the public noticed one of their professional crashers having accidents at the same spot, more than once, and told the police.

As with many people who are more concerned about making money than the welfare of others, this scheme represents a quite flagrant disregard for people's safety and possessions. Causing genuine accidents by driving without due care and attention is unforgivable; doing what these men did is abhorrent.

Although the accidents were low speed, one suspects that it was only a matter of time before greed would have led these criminals to stage bigger, faster crashes in the hope of squeezing even more money out of their unwitting victims. It is to be hoped that their actions do not catch on elsewhere.

by: Richard Craig
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'car Crash For Cash' Brothers Face Prison Sentence