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(NewsNation) — An alleged staged car crash was caught connected a driver's dash cam and the video footage went viral aft the proprietor posted it to societal media. Now, constabulary are investigating, saying this is security fraud and is happening much often astir the country.
That’s precisely what happened past week to a pistillate successful Queens, New York, who caught the full happening connected dash cam video.
A suspected staged collision successful NYC
Ashpia Natasha was driving connected a three-lane parkway erstwhile she had to slam connected the breaks to debar a clang successful a shoulder-less lane. A car swerved into her lane, chopped her off, stopped, deed the hazards and past reversed into her Honda Accord.
Soon aft successful the video, determination was a tarp enactment up to screen up the backmost model of the different car earlier respective radical climbed retired and tried to assertion they were hurt.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau, a radical that tracks security claims, called this an attempted security fraud strategy playing retired successful existent time. Natasha posted the dashcam video connected TikTok, racking up astir 68 cardinal views.
The scammers past tried to record an security and aesculapian assertion to get money. Natasha was not wounded successful the clang but she said they picked the incorrect idiosyncratic to messiness with.
"I watched the video aggregate times and that's erstwhile it deed maine that, ohio my God, this is astir apt a setup. I'm beauteous furious. I didn't deliberation that this was a thing," said Natasha.
How to combat security scammers
It is; truthful overmuch truthful that AAA recommends the pursuing tips:
- Be alert
- Don't tailgate
- Know if you're astatine hazard (if driving a luxury oregon commercialized vehicle)
- Consider a dashcam
AAA recommends that if you bash find yourself progressive successful what you fishy is simply a staged collision:
- Get to information and get retired of traffic, if possible.
- Collect each the accusation you tin specified arsenic photos of the different person's driver's license, their conveyance recognition number, their security argumentation number, their licence sheet fig and their vehicle.
As for Natasha's alleged perpetrators, aft collecting her information, and presumably noticing she had a dashcam, they drove off.
An NYPD spokesperson told NewsNation affiliate PIX11 that constabulary were investigating the incident.
How communal are these scams?
Groups that way information for these staged car accidents accidental it’s happening much and much — particularly successful large states known for traffic, similar New York and California, which according to the Insurance Information Institute via the New York Post saw a combined 7,000 staged crashes past twelvemonth betwixt the 2 states.
Officials from the National Insurance Crime Bureau accidental a dashcam is the champion mode to support yourself, 1 similar Natasha had.
NewsNation affiliate PIX11 contributed to this report.
