Safety & Accident

DES PLAINES, IL --- New Year's Day was the leading holiday for reported vehicle thefts in 2008, according to an analysis issued recently by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Among holidays, your vehicle was safest on New Year's Eve and Christmas Day.

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DENVER --- The Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority has received eight grant awards totaling nearly $2 million to target and combat auto theft statewide.

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INDIANAPOLIS --- Allstate Insurance Co. announced it has donated a "bait car" to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) to help catch car thieves in action. The IMPD's new bait car, outfitted with advanced technology, will be placed in various locations throughout the city in an attempt to reel in and catch car thieves in the act.

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FRESNO, CA --- Three Fresno police officers are facing charges that they stole cars that were meant to have been impounded, KMPH Channel 26 News reported.

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DES PLAINES, Ill. --- The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in Modesto, Calif., had the highest per capita rate for vehicle thefts in the nation in 2007.

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