In light of insurance scams, including a staged “crash for cash” coach incident on the M57 involving 30 passengers, telematics are being highlighted as a way to counter bogus insurance claims.
The Quartix vehicle tracking unit, with its crash detection and recording technology, is able to provide the Powys-based firm says detailed accounts of incidents and therefore help to establish whether a claim corresponds to the scale of the impact in question.
The Quartix product has a tri-axis accelerometer which monitors for any impact greater than 1.3g – in the event of an accident it would trigger the sensor and immediately alert the allocated contact by text message and/or email. With seven data points per second, the unit will record detailed vehicle location, heading, speed and g-forces in all three axes, thus enabling to later reconstruct the accident in a video for example (real-life example here).
If a driver suffers a collision with a road user making false insurance claims, the Quartix tracking system can alert the fleet manager instantly and supply them with the necessary data to counter any fraudulent allegations.
Andy Kirk, director at Quartix, states: “Telematics systems such as ours offer a way to get to the facts extremely efficiently and reliably.”
More about Quartix
Founded in 2001, vehicle tracking company Quartix (www.quartix.co.uk) has more than 5,000 customers across a range of sectors – including government organisations, housing associations, construction firms, hospital trusts, the emergency services, SMEs and large British brands – using the online service; and the company’s own-design tracking system has been installed in 80,000 vehicles.
