article_snippet.sent: These dramatic images show the moment an Audi pulled out of a road and deliberately crashed into the side of a bus as part of a £1million 'crash for cash' scam.
article_snippet.sent: The elaborate fraud involved cars and vans being driven into the side of First Group buses so passengers - who were mainly friends and relatives complicit in the scam - could falsely claim from insurers.
article_snippet.sent: As the pictures show, all the collisions followed similar scenarios in which a car would collide with the side of a bus, causing both minimal impact and damage.
article_snippet.sent: In each case, the driver of a car would admit full liability, allowing all of the passengers from the bus to submit personal injury claims.
article_snippet.sent: The blue Audi pulls out from Whitchurch road, in Chester and accelerates into the side of the bus .
article_snippet.sent: The blue Audi then collides into the bus as part of the £1million 'crash for cash' scam that took place over three years .
article_snippet.sent: The elaborate fraud allowed passengers on the bus, who were mainly friends and relatives complicit in the scam, to falsely claim from insurers .
article_snippet.sent: The drivers would then pull out at low speed, using vehicles provided by Smith, and collide with the buses.
article_snippet.sent: The single and double decker buses had been chosen out of 'greed' because of the sheer number of claims that could be lodged, the court was told.
article_snippet.sent: The trial at Manchester Crown Court (pictured) heard how the elaborate fraud involved cars and vans being deliberately driven into the side of buses so 'injured' passengers - who were mainly friends and relatives in on the scam - could falsely claim from insurers . '
highlights_snippet.sent: Crash for cash' fraud involved cars being deliberately driven into buses .
  