Laura Whitcombe

Birmingham emerges as the UK’s ‘crash for cash’ capital

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Birmingham, home of Cadbury, the X-ray and state education, has just scooped another accolade. Today it has emerged as the ‘crash for cash’ capital of Britain – and it’s nothing to do with Spaghetti Junction.

A deliberate car crash was staged every three hours in the UK last year in order to net fraudsters compensation from fake injury claims.

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