Beware; we have modern-day “Dick Turpins’” at work on our roads, not quite “Stand and deliver” at gun point, but there’s a striking similarity.

There is a crime that is sweeping the country and innocent drivers are the victims. The drivers are ambushed into a situation they have no control over.

This is what can happen:

You follow and old vehicle on the road and you approach a roundabout, junction or slip road. This vehicle, which often has no brake lights, brakes hard and you cannot avoid slamming into it.

There might be more than one car involved. The car in front of you might brake sharply because the second car pulls into its path on purpose.

If you have been a victim of these criminals and they are brought to justice, you can use a compensation lawyer to claim back your losses and incurred expenses.

For the most part, these set-ups occur at busy roundabouts and slip roads. The instigators of these 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. They charge over the odds prices for repair work and hire car costs. They then make a bogus claim 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. So what was a minor accident has turned into a claim for thousands of pounds.

Insurers are quite rightly extremely concerned about the scale of these so called “accidents” and believe there could be as many as 10,000 of them occurring per year. To deal with the massive problem, the Insurance Fraud Bureau has been set up by the Association of British Insurers. They work with the police to find these gangs and bring them to justice.

These organized crime rings put motorists and passengers at risk everyday. The criminals will be stopped when drivers, insurers and the police work together.

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