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Crash for Cash

Car Insurance fraud case costs insurance industry £1.6 million. 24 year old Mohammed Patel, a Department for Works and Pensions employee is the latest person to be convicted of what is becoming known as 'cash for crash'. The practice involves staging crashes by breaking suddenly in a vehicle casuing another vehicle to drive into the rear. (Continues below). 

Patel staged over 100 crashes and charged £500 each time. He scammed the insurance industry out of £1.6 million. He got caught because he had a habit of staging his car crashes in the same location at a roundabout. Heh as been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

Our view at 1 day car insurance: Car insurance fraud means the average motorist has to pay approximatley £40 a year in increased premiums. Add to this the danger that he cause by crashing on the public highway, and the stress and injuries he caused to those that had the misfortune to be driving behind him and we say he got what he deserved. Sad thing is he will probably be released in a short amount of time and will then struggle to even get 1 day car insurance, and will most likely put the rest of us in danger driving uninsured.