WTF? Bizarre crash + AskMID?

[vit4]

On my way home from work - this happened about 30 minutes ago. I've attached a print screen of the junction below to try and make it a little bit clearer. I was first at the lights, in the position of the camera. The lights to my right were green, and a Yaris came through with no headlights on turning right onto my road, directly ahead of me. Without reason, she stopped abruptly just after entering the road I was on, not whilst waiting to turn right. The car behind her, an N-reg Civic, did an emergency stop causing the car behind him to go into the back of him. As soon as this happened the Yaris drove off and turned down a side street... but neither the Civic nor the Almera that went into him even got out to check damage (pretty substantial, deformed the front of the Almera, smashed the light & bumper of the Civic).

Now, until they both drove off, I was presuming it was a crash-for-cash scam. But now I'm at a bit of a loss. The Yaris stopping abruptly without reason and then driving off once the impact happened does scream scam & the Civic passengers bottled it? Or, and I'm thinking that this is more likely, the Civic wasn't insured and didn't want to trade details for that reason, and as they didn't stop the Almera driver wasn't in a hurry to do the same. Worth saying that, by chance, I ended up following them for the next 2 miles or so before I had to turn off, and they were still together.

I'm unsure whether I should report it, as we're not talking a light tap here and the whole thing just looked so dodgy that I'm pretty sure something somewhere is fishy. I've got all registrations so if anybody is able to check whether one/all of the cars were uninsured I can PM them the details when I get back home.

[cheadle hulme]

Was it an older civic by any chance?

[vit4]

cheadle hulme said:

Was it an older civic by any chance?

N-reg. All cars from what I could make out driven by members of a community/ethnicity who, rightly or wrongly, are stereotyped to be heavily involved in crash-for-cash scams...

[NadiR]

Were the cars that were involved have 5 people in them who are under 21? Is so, then its a scam more then likely.

[CraigMST]

Could have been doing test laps. To see what would happen/how easy the 1st car could dissappear etc.
Definitely ring the police on a non emergency number.

[NadiR]

vit4 said:

cheadle hulme said:

Was it an older civic by any chance?

N-reg. All cars from what I could make out driven by members of a community/ethnicity who, rightly or wrongly, are stereotyped to be heavily involved in crash-for-cash scams...

Were the Civic and Almera driven by Asian youngsters? I'm in B'ham and it seems that all the older Civics and Almeras are only driven by them, and there seems to be alot of crashes also within them.

[TheTurbonator]

Does sound like an odd one, my guess is like yours and that both were probably not insured.

I am quite amazed how many times I've seen cars driven off like nothings happened after accidents though.

I once saw a Ford KA move out of its lane it was queuing in, to the one on its right but as it did so a brand new BMW 3-Series was flying down. The Ford KA clipped the rear nearside of the BMW but the BMW just flickered its brake lights and kept going and went through an amber light that the Ford KA then got stuck at.