Lady Alleges Insurance coverage Rip-off After Video Confirmed Automobile Backing Into Her Automobile

A Queens, New York, lady alleged {that a} highway collision on Wednesday, Oct. 16, involving her automotive and one other car captured on sprint cam video was staged as a part of an insurance coverage rip-off.

Ashpia Natasha posted the footage of the incident on her TikTok that has since generated 66 million views as of Tuesday, Oct. 22. Within the caption, she wrote that she was driving on the left lane of the Belt Parkway heading eastbound in the direction of the Southern State Parkway. 

As seen within the clip, a silver Honda in the midst of the lane reduce in entrance of Natasha’s car, prompting her to hit her automotive brakes. The Honda then instantly backed into the entrance of Natasha’s automotive, slamming it. 

“Oh my God!” Natasha might be heard telling her husband on speakerphone, in keeping with the sprint cam video and reported by native affiliate WPIX. “What’s he doing?…I bought into an accident.”

Natasha later wrote within the TikTok caption: “I didn’t hit their automotive and due to that they reversed into my automotive for collision and acted as in the event that they have been injured whereas popping out of their car.”

As seen within the sprint cam, a complete of 4 folks emerged from the Honda wanting shaken up from the collision with Natasha’s automotive. Additionally they seemed to be recording the injury with their telephones. 

Natasha recalled what occurred subsequent to Good Morning America after the collision: “I simply proceeded to deal with it like an accident. , I requested them in the event that they have been okay. We have been in a position to change info. The man within the video, he advised me that the feminine was the motive force and she or he would not converse any English.”

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However the footage later revealed, upon nearer inspection, the backseat passengers within the Honda seemed to be masking the again window with a tarp whereas the motive force went over to the entrance passenger aspect after which got here out allegedly injured, ABC affiliate WABC reported. 

Natasha advised GMA that the Honda riders have been in a rush to go away, saying, “They have been like, ‘Effectively, we have now to go. We now have to go decide up our child.’ And so mainly once I circled to go examine on the automotive, they simply, like, bought of their automotive and left.”

She later wrote on her TikTok caption that she believes the incident was a setup to make it appear like Natasha hit the Honda for “insurance coverage fraud functions.” 

“The primary three passengers exit the automotive pretending to be damage, whereas the fourth passenger who was driving slips out by way of the passenger seat and will get right into a second car,” Natasha wrote. “That second car…was following me from behind and retaining distance so they would not slam into me.”

Natasha later wrote on her TikTok that she reported what occurred as an accident to the police, however was advised that they don’t reply if nobody was damage and if the events concerned willingly exchanged info. 

“I watched the video a number of occasions and that’s when it hit me that, oh my God, that is in all probability a setup,“ Natasha, whose automotive suffered $8,000 in injury that can be coated by her insurance coverage, advised WPIX. “I’m fairly livid. I didn’t assume that this was a factor.”

In an e mail to PEOPLE on Oct. 22 in regards to the incident, a New York Metropolis Police spokesperson stated that the investigation “stays ongoing by the NYPD Legal Enterprise Investigation Unit’s Fraudulent Collision Investigation Squad.”

PEOPLE contacted Natasha on Oct. 22 for added remark.