Chaotic dashcam video captured the second suspected insurance coverage fraudsters crashed right into a motorist and seemingly faked their accidents earlier than noticing a dashcam on the Belt Parkway in Queens.
Ashpia Natasha was driving on the three-lane parkway at 11 a.m. on Wednesday when a silver Honda Accord merged from the middle lane into the left chopping her off, earlier than the erratic driver slammed on his brakes, based on a video of the crash posted to TikTok.
Natasha’s fast response saved her from crashing into the Honda.
The unpredictable operator activates the hazards earlier than stomping on the fuel and flooring the automobile into Natasha’s entrance bumper.
“Oh my God, what’s he doing,” Natasha screamed.
“I simply bought into an accident, I don’t know what’s occurring,” Natasha informed her husband via the automobile’s speakerphone. “This man simply reversed into me, what the hell is occurring.”
Natasha claims two backseat passengers used a “tarp” to cowl the again windshield so the male driver might swap seats with a feminine passenger.
4 occupants exited the Honda seemingly performing as in the event that they have been injured whereas they inspected the injury to the bumper.
“I imagine the intention was to say I hit their automobile for insurance coverage fraud functions,” Natasha stated.
One feminine passenger, who exited from the motive force’s door, had her cellphone out showing to file each automobiles.
A pink Kia, which had been following Natasha drove as much as the aspect of the accident and picked up the suspected male driver earlier than driving away.
Natasha recalled the remaining three passengers’ demeanors altering after they noticed her dashcam.
“They solely got here out of the automobile with their telephones able to file the injury to each automobiles. They have been fast to ask for my insurance coverage and rapidly left after the trade.”
The male passenger spoke with Natasha and defined that his spouse was driving and didn’t converse English.
“They have been very fast to trade my license and my insurance coverage, registration and all the things so I didn’t assume something of it,” she stated in a follow-up video.
Natasha had requested the remaining passengers if they may wait until her husband confirmed up however they stated they needed to go away “straight away to go choose up their child.”
When a tow truck got here to examine on Natasha’s automobile, the opposite passengers took it as a possibility to get again into theirs and go away.
“I’m probably not positive in the event that they focused me due to my automobile or they noticed that I used to be driving alone,” Natasha stated. “They didn’t actually observe me for a very long time. It appeared like all the things occurred actually quick. It positively appeared like this was deliberate out for some time. Undoubtedly not their first time.”
The annoyed driver says she didn’t discover the change in drivers or that it was a “set-up” till after she rewatched the video as she was driving by herself and “all the things occurred so quick.”
Natasha says she referred to as the NYPD to report the accident however was informed police don’t present as much as accidents if there have been no accidents and each events have been prepared to trade data.
The Submit has reached out to the NYPD.
In 2020, insurance coverage carriers reported 24,238 incidents of suspected motorcar insurance coverage fraud, based on the New York State Motor Car Theft and Insurance coverage Fraud Prevention Board.
Over 18,000 of the incidents have been labeled being no-fault insurance coverage fraud stories a 23 % enhance from 2019.