A taxi following a lane guidance line makes a left turn, and the moment it attempts to cross over, it suddenly collides with a vehicle in the adjacent lane.
[What is this!]
While making a left turn at the intersection in front of the Jamsil Lotte Tower, it collides directly with a vehicle changing lanes.
This was the crime scene of a gang that intentionally targeted cars changing lanes to cause accidents in Seoul, Guri, and Namyangju over a period of two years and five months starting from March 2023.
[Park Hye-ran / Victim: Something hit the back with a thud. I wondered what it was and looked, and a young woman came out holding her neck. I was taken aback.]
The crimes they committed totaled 29 times, and the illegally acquired insurance payout alone reaches 240 million won.
After causing an accident, if they did not get the settlement amount they wanted, they used a tactic of being hospitalized for a long period even if they were not seriously injured.
Investigations showed that they were hospitalized for up to five days even for accidents where only the side mirrors brushed against each other, and they had their girlfriends or mothers ride in the passenger seat to double their insurance payouts.
They alternated between two used cars purchased under the girlfriend's name to cause accidents, and even committed crimes using rental cars provided by insurance companies after the accidents.
[Lee Byung-hoon / Head of the Traffic Crime Investigation Team at Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency: They have a previous record of receiving a 1 million won fine for the same type of insurance fraud in 2024. Considering that they committed these crimes habitually (we applied aggravated punishment), they can receive up to 50 percent aggravated punishment for insurance fraud.]
The police arrested the main suspect in his 40s, surnamed Ahn, on charges of violating the Special Act on the Prevention of Insurance Fraud, and forwarded Ahn's mother and girlfriend, who participated in the crime with him, to the prosecution.
Targeting lane changes... 29 crashes with mom and girlfriend on board (August 19, 2026, 8 News)
(Reported by Lee Se-hyun | Produced by Bae Jun-hwi | Camera Footage by Kim Seung-tae | Video Editing by Lee Seung-yeol | Footage Courtesy of Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency | Produced by SBS Digital News)
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