cash for crash

Bradford bodyshop involved in insurance scam

The owner of a bodyshop that boasts of clients such as top footballers and music superstars, has paid back tens of thousands of pounds to an insurance company after it […]

Two men sentenced for staging crash

Two men who met and became friends in prison were yesterday (Thursday, 5 November) sentenced at the Old Bailey after staging a ‘cash for crash’ accident in order to claim […]

Cash-for-crash fraudster jailed

A man has been jailed after it emerged that he claimed money for an incident that occurred in Chiswick, yet his accomplice wasn’t even in the country at the time. […]

Cash for crash gang to be sentenced

Six men are due to be sentenced over a multimillion-pound crash-for-cash scam. The men from London and Manchester attempted to defraud insurers out of around £5.6 million by setting up […]

Thirty-eight charged over ‘cash for crash’

Thirty-eight people have been charged over an alleged ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud in Cumbria. Police said the offences took place across the county between 2010 and 2014, and the […]

‘Cash-for-crash’ ringleader sentenced

The ringleader of a gang who ran a ‘cash-for-crash’ scam involving bus passengers has been jailed for more than six years. John Smith, 42, from Connah’s Quay, Deeside, staged seven […]