{"id":59034,"date":"2025-08-11T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:10:10","slug":"man-66-accused-of-staging-car-crashes-to-claim-390k-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59034\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 66, accused of staging car crashes to claim $390k insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 66-year-old man allegedly staged more than a dozen car accidents over three years to claim hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance money.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney man is accused of claiming more than $390,000\ufeff by setting up 16 collisions involving 45 vehicles in the Canterbury Bankstown area of south-west Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Police say fake identities were used to buy third-party insurance on a vehicle, which would then be used to allegedly collide with parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ce93d6f1-2f24-41aa-9c04-de0df553780b.jpeg\"   alt=\"A man allegedly staged car accidents to claim insurance money.\"\/>A man allegedly staged car accidents to claim insurance money. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Claims were then made, and in total $390,480 was paid out by insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>The accused man, from Lakemba in the city&#8217;s west, was arrested at Sydney Airport.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with two counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception at Mascot Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>He was granted conditional bail to appear before Bankstown Local Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old man allegedly staged more than a dozen car accidents over three years to claim hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-59034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}