re: DOJ just announced an indictment out of NOLA: staging auto accidents to defraud insurance

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Wasn’t there a thread on here recently by a poster who got into an “accident” in New Orleans that was kinda sketchy? Had a bunch of family members of the other driver show up right away and people on here (maybe even OP) suggested it was staged by the other driver.

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That was me. All of that did happen but the other insurance already accepted 100% fault because I had complete right of way and they had a stop sign. So if it was a scheme it was a complete failure. I doubt it was though. I think their entire family just happened to live in that neighborhood and came in to either help them or intimidate me into accepting fault on video (which was attempted).

This thread seems like they target 18 wheelers and not random drivers.

Now all 3 other people in the other car in my accident listed themselves as injured according to the insurance adjusters. The air bags weren’t even deployed and they were all outside the car walking around right afterwards. So clearly they were at least looking for a pay day after the fact. But I suppose that got shot to shite when they got stamped at fault. They were quite adamant that I hit them the entire few hours I was stuck there. Even though they ran a stop sign and my car was the one that got t boned. They also seemed to think once you stop at a stop sign it’s fair game to just proceed and everyone else has to yield to you.