"You know who you got here the famous "Whiplash" Hwang. He's the fall-down king of Korea."
Posted on 05/03/2023 12:02:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Disturbing dashcam footage has captured the moment a woman appears to leap in front of a car south of Brisbane before the driver speeds away, suspecting an “insurance fraud incident” – or worse.
The video, posted by the Dash Cam Owners Australia Facebook page, was taken in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Browns Plains, south of Brisbane.
A woman with dark hair wearing jeans and a light hoodie is seen suddenly running from the left hand side of the road in front of the moving vehicle.
She appears to brace herself and jump up towards the hood as the driver brakes, knocking her to the ground.
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If I were king everyone with a drivers license would have to watch 6 dash cam videos every month.
They need a new road sign for insurance scam crossing.
We were caught in a ‘brake slam scam’ once. Even though the insurance company lawyer discovered that the woman had done it several times before, that wasn’t allowed into evidence.
I am not convinced. It seems like the woman is running after the guy she is with, probably both drunk at 3 AM. Suddenly sees the car and does the “squirrel freeze”, not knowing whether to try to go backward or forward, and prepares for impact.
No claim should be paid because it was a stupid thing to do, but I am not sold on it being a scam.
Did she take the stand?
I wasn’t in the courtroom for that, only for my own testimony (I wasn’t the driver, and my now husband who was driving, can’t recall. He was so disgusted with the event he either didn’t see her testify, or he’s blocked it out.)
There are tons of videos like this on youtube. Sometimes the car stops and The pedestrian runs right into the front of the car and jumps on the hood and bashes their head against the window until it breaks and then they slide off like they’re injured. It’s pretty comical especially when the driver shows them the dash cam.
"You know who you got here the famous "Whiplash" Hwang. He's the fall-down king of Korea."
Slow American News today?
It’s only disturbing in that people like her are doing this to others.
Classic 404b evidence (knowledge, motive, plan, scheme). There had to be a reason it was not admitted.
I don’t know, and it was decades ago now. We really felt cheated, but we didn’t understand a lot about traffic law - at the time, we figured that anyone who hits from behind is almost always found at fault.
(What really bothered us was that we merely ‘tapped’ her car, and there was absolutely no damage to it; she was claiming physical injury - ‘whiplash’ or some such.)
I don’t think what happened was the lawyer’s fault - she seemed very competent.
It cost us a slightly higher premium for a while, and soon after we ditched the insurance company and went with another. And we drive a lot more defensively now.
Except she stops suddenly and purposefully, puts up her arms, lowers her body, steps toward the car and throws herself against the bumper, and then falls dramatically to the ground. And there's coincidentally another pedestrian bystander right there on the other side of the street at 2:20 a.m., and within 3 seconds he dashes out into the roadway to yell "stop!"
I accounted for all of that in my post - “squirrel freeze” after stupidly running after the guy she was with. It is a known natural response that people will often freeze in such situations and start to curl up to protect core organs from a physical blow, which could look like what we see in this video.
“He was a farmer before the war, and then he had to hit the road...literally.”
I believe she is a scammer. She braced herself and threw herself against the front of the car.
I was driving at night once, and noticed someone jumping in front of cars, but everyone managed to swerve. Being forewarned, I managed to avoid him. I pulled over to a phone booth and called the police.
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