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BMW X5 Brake Checks Big Rig, Gets Squashed

 What we and most of the world don’t seem to understand is that insurance fraud is at an all-time high level in Russia. Most of the crazy dash cam videos we’re seeing on Youtube or LiveLeak these days come from the drivers’ fear that they too will be involved in such practices.
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Photo: Screenshot from Youtube
Apparently, most drivers that try this sort of thing aren’t even poor. They are rich people that are trying to upgrade their cars by wrecking them and claiming the insurance money. To make sure it all goes according to plan, they choose the biggest, slowest and heaviest vehicles on the road: big rigs.

Semi-trucks seem to be the perfect target. They usually have tons of weight to carry around and can’t swerve like a regular car to avoid impacts. The video below is the perfect example to show you what we’re talking about.

In it, at around the 1 minute 25 second mark we can spot a BMW E70 X5 driving in front of a semi and then braking hard. While, at first, we thought the driver simply didn’t realize that the truck couldn’t stop as quickly as his car we soon figured out that this was all a scam.

The lane in front of the SUV is absolutely empty and there’s no real reason for the Bimmer to brake so violently, unless he did it on purpose. Then he gets hit two more times because, apparently, he wanted to make sure his car gets totaled. At least that’s what we’re hoping for because otherwise, this man would be competing for the title of the biggest moron on the road.

According to our readers that speak Russian, the man was very calm after exiting his car, another clue towards our assumption that it was all for insurance money. He blames the truck driver for driving in the fast lane and then claims to have not realized that the 40 ton vehicle couldn’t possibly stop as fast as his own ride.

Unfortunately for him, the truck driver had his trusty camera on and got everything on tape. Hopefully, he didn’t have to pay a thing for the damage as it was clearly not his fault.

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