(KRON) — A San Jose man was sentenced Friday to serve 60 days in jail for trying to profit from his own road rage crash and submitting a bogus claim to his auto insurance company, prosecutors said.
Ken Pham Tran, 53, told Progressive Insurance Co. that the damage to his white Jeep Wrangler Rubicon was caused by an accident.
“It happened because he repeatedly slammed on his brakes in front of a semi-truck he thought had cut him off on the freeway. Finally, the truck driver – unable to stop – struck the back of the Jeep,” the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office wrote…