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24-year-old Mohammed Patel has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for deliberately causing 93 car crashes in three years, each costing insurers about £17,000.
Mohammed Patel charged £500 a time to stage accidents, which enabled car owners to claim for bogus damages from insurers. Patel would force a number of low speed crashes by braking suddenly, often at roundabouts, so the driver behind would crash into the back of him.
Claimants - who owned the cars Patel was driving - hired personal injury lawyers to get compensation for whiplash injury, courtesy cars and legal fees at the expense of the other party's insurers. As a result of the conspiracy he earned about £46,000. But the cost to the insurance industry significantly more.