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DONNA1458 | 12:39 Fri 08th Jun 2007 | Motoring
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is anyone aware of black ties on car back bumpers i have been told that this is for insurance fraud if you see someone with one on the back of their bumper this means they will all claim for injurie compensation has anyone else heard of this???
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I have seen them they are usually on taxi's!! have a look when you are on the roads an let me know if you spot them
I have never seen any, the ones on Taxis are usually holding their Taxi plate in place!

Surely:

- Most people involved in an accident these days will try and claim compensation and they don't have black ties.

- If they were planning on some sort of fraudulent activity, why would they put anything on their vehicle that advertises that fact?

- How is claiming compensation defrauding the insurance company?
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Claiming compo is not fraud but if it is a pre planned accident with both drivers it is fraud!
donna,you are very guilable
Never heard such a complete and utter load of tosh.
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Im guessing these are cable ties to hold the bumper on a car that has previously been rear ended.
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No it's not cable ties it is cloth you can tell between cable ties and the electric conductors. let me know when you see them sometimes tied to exhaust.
The article mentions Bolton, so if thats the case I can guess the type of drivers that are doing this;)
Oh its definitely happening. It was all over the Sunday papers a few months ago. They had pictures of trucks being 'ambushed' in London and a journalist infiltrated a gang.

As a truck driver I am always wary of cars that seem to hover in front of me, or suddenly cut in.
Thank christ......i thought i was going mad.

I've seen these, once i realised what they must be doing i've noticed them a lot more often.

On my way to work i approach a roundabout that has a left only slip lane with a junction on the end of it. You have a clear view of traffic coming from the right for at least half a mile. I was driving behind some ****** toyota carina e and i couldn't see another car anywhere but i slowed down warily because, this will sound very 'stereotypical', i'm wary of elderley asian drivers as they tend to be....how can i put this.....**** drivers. Sure enough the guy stopped, not braking steadily....he just stopped, then looked at me in his rear view mirror for about 5 seconds, then drove off. I was surprised that his tail lights didn't come on and whilst i stared at the back of his car he had a black tie, like a neck tie, dangling from his boot.

about 8 days later, same junction, different car, same black tie.....stopped dead in the road.

As an underwriter i checked it out at work and it's a huge scam, similar amounts are claimed for each time and after asking our fraud team to cross reference rear end shunts in our city, 1 unlucky bird had been in no less than 5 car crashes in a month!!!

I can now predict, almost reliably, where this will happen and with which cars. I won a tenner off my mate after betting him that the car in front.....a nissan bluebird, would break and stop dead in the road round the next corner as it's a blinf bend with a school on the end of the street. sure enough i slowed off the gas, rounded the bend and coasted to a gentle stop right behind the car in front. My mate was gob-smacked. He said the driver must know it's a school road.....i would've probably believed him if i was naive, it was a bloody saturday afternoon.

It beggars belief.

I'm glad i'm not the only one that's noticed this though. Thought i was
Hi donna1458
well i never!
The UK's number one staged accident hotspot is Lancashire,
should that read HOTPOT, a well cooked up scam
i wonder if it came here with all those european settlers
that have graced our shores recently,

freeloaders - well thats my opinion of the majority of them.
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Thanks for your comments guys I thought at the start no one had every heard of this there is not much in the way of publicity on this but just best to be in the know and keep your wits about you.

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