Birmingham exposed as worst 'crash for cash' area

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Birmingham has topped the Insurance Fraud Bureau's (IFB) top 20 league table of crash for cash hotspots in Q2 2010.

Liverpool came second in the table, which draws on two years of insurance claims and policy data, followed by Blackburn, Manchester and Leeds.

Glen Marr, director of the IFB, said: "The IFB currently has 24 active joint police operations, with a combined value of approximately £41m, spread across 15 police forces. Each operation represents an average value of £1.7m and on average 253 claims. Since its formation in July 2006, the IFB has been instrumental in helping the police make in excess of

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