the elaborate fraud involved cars and vans being driven into the side of first group buses so passengers - who were mainly friends and relatives complicit in the scam .
the crashes took place between october 2010 and january 2012 and earned ringleader john smith 45 , from connah 's quay , north wales , £ 159,000 .
as the pictures show , all the collisions followed similar scenarios in which a car would collide with the side of a bus , causing both minimal impact and damage .