Car crash ‘followed suspicious pattern’

An allegedly fraudulent car crash, said to closely fit a pattern of six suspicious accidents that could cost up to €500,000 in damages and costs, was thrown out by a judge yesterday at the request of Zurich Insurance.

Counsel Paul McMorrow told the Circuit Civil Court that, throughout the chain of apparently linked accidents, comprehensive insurance policies would be taken out only days before the accidents followed by the disappearance of the drivers and the old cars they used in rear-ending collisions.

“The driver in the case before the court has since become untraceable, all part of a pattern of six accidents which happened in darkness, all at ‘T’ junctions in remote locations throughout the country without any independent witnesses,” said Mr McMorrow.