A collision can generate an insurance claim. In the case described by the Crown Prosecution Service, deliberately arranged collisions and false accounts instead became part of a fraud prosecution. A former Metropolitan Police officer received four years and five months in prison at Southwark Crown Court on 18 September.

The defendant pleaded guilty in April to offences including fraud, interference with justice and unauthorised computer access to facilitate further offences. The CPS also reports a five-year disqualification from being a company director.

This is a dated sentencing story, not an allegation based only on an arrest. The original release explains the separate incidents and proceedings. The conceptual case-file artwork is not a reconstruction of a collision or an official police photograph.