Car thieves are tartgeting added SUVs, cross-over vehicles, and tailgates too

Car thieves are tartgeting added SUVs, cross-over vehicles, and tailgates too

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) letters that SUVs and cross-over SUVs are the agent of best for car thieves.

Almost 20,000 2009-11 archetypal year sports account (SUVs) and crossover sports account cartage (CUVs) were appear baseborn amid 2008 and mid-year 2012.

CUV thefts outnumbered SUV thefts 12,070 to 7,891 amid 2008 and June 2012, according to the NICB data.

The Ford Escape, Toyota RAV4 and Ford Edge were the most-stolen CUVs in that period, according to the address while the Chevy Tahoe, Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Cherokee were the best baseborn SUVs in the aforementioned time frame. 

According to NICB and onlineautoinsurance.com, the best accepted cartage actuality baseborn (SUVs and CUVs) are as follows:

–Ford Escape (CUV): 1,014 thefts

–Chevy Tahoe (SUV): 856 thefts

–Toyota RAV4 (CUV): 801 thefts

–Ford Edge (CUV): 739 thefts

–Dodge Journey (CUV): 721 thefts

–Honda CR-V (CUV): 643 thefts

–Jeep Wrangler (SUV): 643 thefts

–Jeep Grand Cherokee (SUV): 641 thefts

–Nissan Rogue (CUV): 547 thefts

–Nissan Murano (CUV): 473 thefts

Total appear SUV and CUV thefts accept jumped decidedly nationwide, according to the NICB, which presented abstracts activity aback to 2008, aback there were 511 such thefts. That amount soared to 3,162 the afterward year, jumped afresh to 5,402 in 2010, afresh to 7,580 in 2011.

During the aboriginal bisected of 2012, there were 3,306 appear thefts, the address said.

California was home to the best SUV and CUV thefts, with 3,003. That far outpaced the abutting state, Texas, which had 1,826 thefts during the aforementioned period. Florida followed carefully with 1,784.

In added localized areas, the New York/Long Island/Northern New Jersey breadth ranked accomplished for thefts during that time by far, with 2,438. Annexation victims in that breadth shouldn’t apprehend to get their agent back; it had about four times added unrecovered thefts than added areas in the report.

The Los Angeles/Long Beach/Santa Ana breadth was second-highest in absolute annexation numbers, with 1,229, while California had the third-highest cardinal of unrecovered SUVs and CUVs states in the U.S.

Strangely enough, the NICB address says thefts of tailgates is up.

Insurance claims involving tailgate annexation rose astronomically amid 2009, aback there were 16 such tailgate thefts, and 2010, aback that amount exploded to 430.

NICB agent Frank Scafidi said that, admitting there is no “empirical foundation” to abutment a acumen in the allowance claims increase, able appeal for tailgates in the resale bazaar is acceptable the capital driver.

The cardinal rose afresh in 2011, aback there were 472 such incidents. With 418 tailgate thefts through the third division of 2012, the NICB projects addition access to 557 for aftermost year.

High-end tailgates, usually able with cameras acceptance drivers to see abaft them aback they aback up, can amount $3,600 to replace, while the boilerplate tailgate costs about $1,200, according to the allowance bureau.

Thieves resell the genitalia on Ebay and Craigslist and additionally atom yards, area “the ascent amount of metal has fabricated it advantageous to advertise these genitalia there,” according to the report.

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