He faked an accident using his wife and other accomplices to defraud the insurance. A month later he is arrested and faces up to seven years in prison

The cameras of an Acura, a dashcam and a rear camera, saved its driver from an elaborate insurance scam attempt: a car she ran into on the highway until reversed to simulate a rear reach. An assumption that insurers normally they blame the person driving behind.

Without analyzing the video very detailed, everything smelled very bad. But now it is confirmed by the reports from the police and the prosecutor, which have come to light after the arrest of this driver of very little shame. To carry out his Machiavellian plan he used several accomplicesincluding a third car.

He pretended his wife was the driver and sneaked away in another car.

Last October 16 A Honda Civic crossed the path of Asphia Natasha’s Acura. He was talking on the hands-free device, so we have a voice-over narration to the surreal image recorded by the camera: the Civic slips into his lane and hits the brakes. Natasha stops and saves the blow. Then the Civic reverses and hits the Acura. “My God,” Natasha laments, not believing what she is experiencing.

In this video that includes the two clips recorded by the Acura cameras, the entire sequence can be seen. After the blow, We see the occupants covering the rear window of the Civic with what looks like a cloth. Seconds later, the person who gets out of the driver’s seat is a woman. Two other passengers get out of the back seats, pretending to be in pain. They record or take photos of the Acura. Until they find the dashcam. Her face when she sees it says it all.

But in these videos we also have a red Kia Sportage that goes unnoticed with so much good theater. In the rear image you can see how he brakes behind the Acura, remains stopped there for a few seconds and then overtakes it. In the dashcam video we see him get in front of the Civic and stop again.

He was not a good Samaritan standing up for the accident, but rather another accomplice in the attempted fraud. If you look closely at the Civic, and as the three complaining occupants get out of the car, you see a fourth passenger which ends up moving to the passenger seat from the driver’s seat. Immediately afterwards he sneakily gets out and gets into the Kia. Shortly after, the SUV leaves the scene.

According to reportsthis fourth occupant was actually the driver: He has been identified as Maikel Martínez, 28 years old and resident in Brooklyn (New York). They arrested him last week as he landed in New York. He confessed to the police that the woman who got out of the driver’s seat was his wife. There is currently no information about the rest of the occupants and who was at the controls of the Kia Sportage.

The Kia Sportage stopped both behind the Acura and then in front of the Honda Civic to take out the real driver.

We do not know if all of those involved were family members or mere friends or acquaintances. In any case, the occupants of the Civic and Sportage were evidently in cahoots.

And Martínez has been charged with several charges: simulating a traffic accident, property damage, reckless endangerment, conspiracy and insurance fraud. Depending on what you are convicted of, you could be between two and seven years in prison. With the video as evidence, there is little doubt that he will serve time. The Honda Civic, by the way, was confiscated shortly after the incident.

In Spain it is legal to install a dashcam in the car, and record with it: its images can be used as evidence before insurance or a court. What you cannot do is publish these images publicly, for example on social networks, due to data protection regulations. With chapters like this, it makes us want to equip our car with one of these little cameras.