Where do the Russian Accident videos come from?

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Reader Weetabix asked a most proper question:

Does Youtube just equip all cars in Russia with cameras so they don’t run out of these videos?

My response:

You’d think so. Russia had a gigantic rash of insurance scams in the mid 2000s IRRC. You can actually still find videos of people throwing themselves at cars stopped at lights and to say they got run over and collect big fat settlements. Russians started to install cameras as precaution and thus began the era of the Russian Vehicular Spectaculars.

And here are a couple of compilations.

And they are still at it.

I am thinking very seriously about installing a camera myself. It solves the “He said/ He said” arguments for the insurance.