OK, I've now googled, in an attempt to educate myself. Came upon this as one of the top links:
"A low-speed collision or car accident is a collision that takes places at speeds below ten miles per hour. Often times there is little or no visible property damage done to the bumpers of either vehicle. However, minimal or nonexistent damage to the vehicles involved does not mean that you haven’t sustained a physical injury.
Rear-end accidents are the most common low-speed collision. At low speeds, particularly where the impacting vehicle is already at a stop, the forces involve transfer to your unrestrained body parts within the vehicle. Pain from an injury may be negligible or unnoticeable in the immediate wake of the accident. It does not surface until well after the collision."
So I guess that perhaps the other driver may not be lying, but that he really did suffer serious injury.
Edit: And the following, from Wikipedia: " It is one of the most frequently claimed injuries on vehicle insurance policies in certain countries; for example, in the United Kingdom 430,000 people made an insurance claim for whiplash in 2007, accounting for 14% of every driver's premium."
Last edited by: tyro on Tue 6 Nov 18 at 15:59
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