A young driver with a telematics box in his car was amused when asked if he was in an accident 27 years before he was born.
Telematics car insurance works by tracking your journey with a special "black box" or your smartphone. It then calculates an insurance premium based on your driving style. Many young drivers choose telematics insurance because they would otherwise be charged high premiums.
One driver, Aaron Horlock, fitted his car with a telematics box to save money on his motor insurance policy. The box was sent by Freedom Brokers insurance company and generally worked as expected.
But one day Horlock, a London-based musician, was surprised to see a notice from the company asking if he was in an accident.
Knowing that he had no crashes, Horlock opened the accompanying telematics app to investigate. The mystery deepened when the app thought he was involved in an accident in 1970 – 27 years before he was born.
It also took place around 37 years before his Volkswagen Fox even rolled off the assembly line.
But the alleged crash defied the laws of both physics and time: as the app thought the accident occurred at sea several hundred miles off the coast of Nigeria.
Horlock saw the funny side and told the company that no such accident had happened.
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