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The whiplash lie detector
Fri, 05 Aug 2011

It seems that a whiplash lie detector could very well be the solution to the rise of car accident insurance claims, 76% of which are whiplash claims.

It is not uncommon for a motorist to nudge of knock another vehicle, to then see the driver of this car get out realise there is no damage to the car and simply drive away. However, it does not end there. Most likely the driver who accidentally nudge the drivers car will end up with a whiplash injury claim that could very well be asking for as much as £2000.

This is certainly reflected by the fact that almost three quarters of all personal injury claims are as a result of a car accident and the insurance industry is convinced that many of these are fraudulent.

Now though the insurance industry is hitting back with what has been dubbed the whiplash lie detector. The detector is not like conventional lie detectors as it does not measure heart rate, blood pressure or skin moisture but is actually a rather sophisticated piece of software into which you feed details of the accident. The speed of the crash, the weight of the cars, the visible damage and the type of cars are all feed into this piece of software which then gives you a probability that the person claiming whiplash injury is telling a lie.

We hope that this new piece of software could very well end what Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary, labeled a 'huge racket.'
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