One such driver, Jose Luis Lopez Perez, died after a swoop and squat crash,[1][2] leading to an investigation which revealed the extent of this fraud.
In 2011, a group of seven people in North and South Carolina were arrested for allegedly stealing over $100,000 through staged crash schemes.
[3][4] On October 16th, 2024, a Honda Civic cut off a woman driving on the Belt Parkway near Rosedale, New York and backed into her.
The incident was caught on camera through the woman's dashcam, later going viral on TikTok and bringing attention to rising numbers of similar cases in the tri-state area.
[24] Other states have passed or are eyeing diverse legislation targeting efforts by gangs to bring in real and fake crash passengers to lodge phone crash-injury claims.