Ah, the lengths people will go to make money...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091021/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_crash

The two most chilling lines are at the front end of the article:

Mohammed Patel, 24, charged 500 pounds a time to stage accidents which enabled fraudsters to claim an average of 17,000 pounds from their insurers.

Police said he staged at least 92 crashes between 2005 and 2008, each time persuading the other driver to believe they were at fault.

Of course, Mr. Patel not only managed to rake money for himself and allowed the "fraudsters" to claim plenty of insurance money, but he also put people's lives in danger while aiding in his own special way to make insurance rates all that much higher.

Well done.

4 1/2 years of prison seems a little to lenient...