With Thanksgiving in the rearview and Christmas steadily approaching, 2017 is coming to a close.
While the holiday season approaches and the year winds down, it's crucial to remember that thieves are particularly active during the holidays. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a total of 22,705 vehicles were reported stolen on the 11 holidays covered in their 2016 report. The data is pulled from the National Crime Information Center's stolen vehicle file, which showed a total of 803,719 vehicle thefts for the year.
Many of the thefts occurred in large states. California was the number one state with the most holiday vehicle thefts in 2016 with 5,285. It was followed, in descending order, by Texas (2,121); Florida (1,397); Washington (889) and Georgia (763).
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Denny Jacob
Denny Jacob is an associate editor for NU PropertyCasualty360. Contact him at [email protected].
