In my mind - made-up claims should be subject to the normal laws regarding “perjury” and “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice”.
You make a bull statement in court - you get four years. If Archer and AItken can get some - then why not everyone else, especially those of a certain ethnic extraction that seems to go with this kind of scam…?
Radar19:
Makes me kinda worried that most of the stuff I drive does not.
Stick your own in as many of us do,covering your own arse it`s called.
The haulage firm concerned did not involve the police and the four ‘whiplash scam’ perpetrators - who dropped the claim - were not prosecuted for fraud.
Fantastic let the next haulier that doesn’t have cameras foot the bill for these crooks. Well done you bellends 
merc0447:
The haulage firm concerned did not involve the police and the four ‘whiplash scam’ perpetrators - who dropped the claim - were not prosecuted for fraud.
Fantastic let the next haulier that doesn’t have cameras foot the bill for these crooks. Well done you bellends
Don’t let the buggers know you don’t have one then! - Stick a bit of plastic in the windscreen and “pretend it’s a dashcam” if need be.
What about the damage to the lorry and the poor O.P. ishe not having “flashbacks” and losing sleep over this.Its no win no fee out there.
I’m surprised that nobody has commented about the start of the video where the truck is undertaking the vehicle in lane 2, that’s probably why it was not reported to the police.
Undertaking isn’t a crime, only an advisory. I’ve never known anyone, truck, car or otherwise be pulled for overtaking on the left, unless it’s linked to something else, driving without due care, excessive speed, etc.
Not a crash for cash IMO. That would mean they intentionally cut across 3 lanes to get hit by a truck but this looks like they genuinely swerved to avoid a crash.
However, the fact that they then made factious claims for whiplash and blamed the trucker deserves punishment. There should be custodial sentences for scum like these!!!
Whether this particular incident was a genuine ‘crash for cash’ scam or not can be debated from now until doomsday, and it certainly helps that the lorry has a dash-cam (these days personally, I wouldn’t drive a lorry unless it had one!) but the footage does beg a question -
I know it happens all the time and, by definition, these cretins don’t realise just how much of a mess a fully laden Artic can make of a [stationary] car, but can you just imagine the headlines the first time that the dash-cam footage shows a ‘crash for cash’ scammer getting turned into jam?
Something to ‘look forward to’?
It was 2 years ago. Move along…
eagerbeaver:
It was 2 years ago. Move along…
Bloody hell, I missed the year on the op. 
