Lately, recordings from cameras installed on the dashboard or front window of cars, better known as dashcams.
Some of these recordings are surreal, like the one Asphia Natasha uploaded to her TikTok channel to show everyone the scam attempt of which he was a victim in the middle of the highway.
Carrying a dashcam can save you a bad drink
Whoever hits another vehicle from behind is the one at fault. It is one of the most popular unwritten rules when there is a road accident and, normally, insurers apply it to resolve a claim when the two parties cannot agree.
The problem comes when mischief comes into play and attempts are made to use this “rule” in a devious way to carry out a scam. This is what happened on a highway in New York, in the United States. However, the scammers did not have the dashcam (dash camera) that the other car was carrying.
In the United States, many drivers use these cameras for whatever may happen. It is already known that a picture is worth a thousand words and when there is an accident, a video can be the best way to clear things up.
Ashpia Natasha has two dashcams in her car, one on the dashboard to record everything that happens in front of her Acura and another in the back so as not to lose details of what happens behind her vehicle.
@ashpianatasha4 Insurance fraud attempt in Queens, NY 10-16-2024 PART 1 I was driving in the left lane of the Belt Parkway going East bound towards the Southern State Parkway. The silver Honda (LBB 8917) was in the middle lane, and they cut me off and slammed on the brakes coming to a full stop hoping I would hit them. I did not hit their car and because of that they reversed into my car for collision and acted as if they were injured while coming out of their vehicle. I believe the intention was to say I hit their car for insurance fraud purposes. They had a tarp covering the rear windshield which fell off once they hit my car. You can see the driver is a male wearing a hat and you can see him switching to the passenger seat as well as the movement of the car before anyone gets out. The first three passengers exit the car pretending to be hurt, while the fourth passenger who was driving slips out through the passenger seat and gets into a second vehicle. That second vehicle was a red KIA SUV (KJH 3340) which was following me from behind and keeping distance so they wouldn’t slam into me. The red KIA drove around and picked up the driver to get away. The remaining three people’s demeanor changed once one of them noticed the dashcam. They only came out of the car with their phones ready to record the damage to both cars. They were quick to ask for my insurance and quickly left after the exchange. I called the police at the time of the incident and reported it as an accident, and the police told me they no longer go to an accident if no one is injured and they are willing to exchange information. I did not realize at the time that the driver switched and left in another car or that it was a set-up as I was driving by myself, and everything happened so fast. #queensny #car #caraccident #exposed #newyork #brooklynny @nbcnews @abcnews @nypd @geico @allstate @pix11ny ♬ original sound – Ashpia Natasha
Well, the front camera of your Acura has been decisive in getting rid of what could have been a big mess. Natasha was traveling on a three-lane highway when another car overtook her on the right, entered her lane and braked suddenly until she came to a complete stop. He then reverses and crashes into Natasha’s Acura, which had stopped to avoid hitting that car when it braked suddenly.
What the driver of the other car, a Honda Civic, intended with the first brake was for Natasha not to react in time and crash into her vehicle, that is, I was looking for a hit by range. But Natasha braked and there was no accident.
It was then that the driver of the Honda Civic sought the blow in another way: by putting it in reverse to crash herself into the other vehicle. With this maneuver, what the Civic driver intended was to say that the vehicle driving behind her had hit her from behind, probably alluding to the fact that she was not keeping a safe distance.
What the driver of the Civic did not expect is that the other vehicle had a dashcam and was recording absolutely everything. Natasha has shared the images that her Acura’s dashcam collected in TikTok and, beyond the maneuver and the impact, the way the occupants of the other vehicle act is striking. Is worthy of a bad movie.
In the video, you can see Natasha driving along the highway while you hear her talking on the phone. When the Civic overtakes her and brakes suddenly, Natasha tells the person she is talking to on the hands-free phone what is happening live and then the crash occurs.
Immediately afterwards, the driver of the Civic gets out and pretends to be disoriented and in pain. Three other occupants of the Civic also get out and do gestures of painlike putting your hand on your neck. Meanwhile, they take out their mobile phones to take photos of the crash and the license plate of the car they wanted to “load the dead man” into, but then one of the occupants realizes that the car has a dashcam, his face changes completely and He mentions it to the driver. That’s where the scene ends.
Thanks to the dashcam, Natasha has escaped these scammers accusing her of being guilty of the hit in order to be compensated, not only for the damage to the vehicle, but for what appears to be pretend in your own body. In theory, the images should also help the other car’s insurance pay for the repair of Natasha’s Acura after the attempted scam including a coup.
Is it legal to carry a dashcam in Spain?
In Spain, it is legal to carry a dashcam and, given what we have seen, it can be really useful. The question is how the images that are recorded are used because they cannot violate data protection law. No problem if those images are for private usebut they cannot be published on the Internet if people who can be identified and who have not given their consent to be recorded appear.
If this is not the case and the images are shared, for example, on social networks, it must be ensured that no personal information can be identified, so the license plates of the rest of the cars would have to be blurred or eliminated.
That is to say, recording is legalbut using images is not always. In the case of an accident, an individual can use the recordings as evidence before insurance or in court to prove who was at fault in an accident. It is protected by the rule of legitimate interest, included in Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and which is part of the European regulation 2016/679, and based on the right to effective judicial protection, a fundamental right included by the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
To use the recordings in this way, only the images of the moment of the event would have to be sent, that is, of a specific event. These images should also record only what happens in front of the front of the vehicle (or behind the rear). You also have to blur the image of people or the license plates of cars that are not involved in the accident. Lastly, they cannot have sound.
Image: @ashpianatasha4 (TikTok)
Source: www.motorpasion.com
