"Targeted Only Left-Turning Cars in the First Lane"… 'Deliberate Traffic Accident' Insurance Fraud Ring Caught

1 Person Arrested · 18 Accomplices Booked... Scheduled for Prosecution Transfer

Closed-circuit (CC) TV footage capturing a deliberate traffic accident [Provided by Dongducheon Police Station]

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] An insurance fraud ring that deliberately caused traffic accidents targeting lane-changing vehicles at habitual traffic violation spots while driving rental cars, collecting tens of millions of won in insurance money, was caught by the police.

Dongducheon Police Station announced on the 22nd, "We have arrested the main suspect, a man in his 20s identified as A, on charges of special injury and violation of the Special Act on the Prevention of Insurance Fraud, and have booked 18 others without detention on the same charges and plan to send them to the prosecution."

From October last year to January this year, A and his group are accused of deliberately causing 11 traffic accidents around Dongducheon, Uijeongbu, and Yangju in Gyeonggi Province, receiving insurance money under the pretexts of medical expenses and settlements, causing property damage of 74.3 million won to five insurance companies, and personal injury to five drivers of the victim vehicles.

Police investigations revealed that they, who were seniors and juniors in the local area, committed the crimes by deliberately colliding with vehicles that changed lanes from the first lane to the second lane after making a left turn at habitual illegal lane-changing spots.

The suspects persistently repeated U-turns to return to the crime scene when there were no left-turn vehicles in the first lane, targeting vehicles for the crime.

The police, suspicious of two traffic accidents reported by victims occurring at the same location with similar methods, analyzed rental car GPS data and nearby closed-circuit (CC) TV footage to secure evidence of intentional accidents.

Through verification of financial accounts of all 19 members of the group and insurance company accident records, the police confirmed additional crimes, conducted digital forensics on the mobile phones of A and two others, and obtained full confessions of the crimes.

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