After a hard day of just being a friggin' hero, pulling your fellow man out of the twisted, flaming wreckage of a highway pileup, a guy is entitled to $1,200 of body work on his Expedition, a little $21,000 shoulder surgery and maybe a cold one, right? But the NYPD has slapped the cuffs on Gabriel Hernandez, a Bronx resident who is accused of insurance fraud after authorities viewed a tape of the accident that shows Hernandez wasn't actually involved in the accident.
Last September, after a tractor-trailer flipped over and pinned a car onto a guardrail near the RFK Bridge in the Bronx, Hernandez told the Triboro Bridge and Tunnel Authority that "the truck had pushed his vehicle into the guard rail" and was injured. But, as you can see in the video below, he actually parks in front of the truck and races to help the victims (one of whom couldn't work for two months while the other "was hospitalized for two days with neck and back injury").
So if Hernandez was in fact not injured by the crash, how could he have shoulder surgery and rack up those medical bills? An officer quoted in the story says "when he was shown the video by the arresting detective, he pretty much said that he hurt his shoulder while trying to remove one of the occupants of the car." Given the track record of health insurance companies, it sounds like Hernandez is not only a "Good Samaritan," but a bonafide entrepreneur—especially after he hired a lawyer to sue the truck driver before his arrest.
