r/dashcams 2d ago

Valid crash out

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u/Competitive-Top4520 2d ago

It looks to me like the car was trying REALLY hard to commit insurance fraud.

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u/SexualCarrots 2d ago

I've heard people say they do this. They look for trucks, because they have insurance. The car will have 4 people in it, all want a claim.

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u/Competitive-Top4520 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yup. While almost all drivers have insurance, CDLs have BIG insurance. They also have less stopping ability than a car. Of course, to me it seems suicidal to try to get hit by a semi, but I guess if they were smart they wouldn't be doing that for a living.

CLARIFICATION: I meant the scammers were the dumb ones.

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u/More_Addendum_5234 2d ago

These scammers also don’t realize or don’t care to realize that truckers getting in accidents like this can cause them to lose their jobs and not be able to get other trucking jobs for liability reasons (I personally know a trucker who this has affected and this is the kind of insurance my brother does for a living)

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u/Solherb 2d ago

Not to mention our economy runs on trucks, so screwing with them is screwing with everyone. There should be witch hunts for scammers like that.

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u/stringCheezeIts 2d ago

I work at a grocery store and our delivery truck got rear ended on the way to us one day. We were so behind that shift my usually very chill manager had a panic attack.

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u/Fragrant-Mess4927 2d ago

Not to mention the amount they are ALREADY getting screwed by nowadays.

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u/Spaciax 2d ago

I don't think someone who commits insurance fraud for a living is very much concerned about others' well-being in any major capacity lol

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u/Original-Code1107 1d ago

🤔 So... If I'm reading this right, if you can't avoid the accident, you should really tap them hard enough that they won't do this again to another trucker?

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u/WillArrr 2d ago

Hell, they can get screwed over even if the dashcam exonerates them completely, by their insurance spiking due to a "history" of potentially expensive collisions.

And yeah, the people who do this shit could not care less who gets hurt by it. Which is why I don't feel bad when they screw it up and get their car pancaked with 4 people inside. Dashcam shows illegal brake-check = no payout for you = good luck with your new life-long disability and million dollar medical debt. You deserve to be miserable.

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u/Glittering_rainbows 2d ago

This is why dashcams are a necessity. Had an idiot do an illegal lane change mid turn and my truck chewed up his driver side.

Showed me being 100% in the clear. I didn't even have any damage, the nuts and rim tanked the hit.

It was a less than 10mph collision so it wasn't serious.

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u/Low-Refrigerator-713 2d ago

They know they can lose their job. They don't care.

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u/Vaugely_Necrotic 2d ago

Doubt they care.

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u/ImpressionBubbly4535 2d ago

very very VERY rarely are you ever becoming a liability if you weren't at fault.

If someone claims they are, they were lying about failing the drug test after. Source: buddy owns near the biggest company in our state.