Insurance companies regulated fewer car thefts in Saxony in 2020.
The number of cases they balanced fell by a good quarter (25.8 percent) to 569 compared to the previous year, "probably due to the corona pandemic," as the Association of German Insurance Companies (GDV) reported in Berlin on Thursday.
SUVs in particular were “very popular”.
Berlin / Dresden - The risk of theft in large cities was higher than in the countryside: In Leipzig and Dresden the rate was 0.7 and 0.5, in the Chemnitz area it was 0.1.
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With statistically 0.3 thefts per 1000 cars, the balance is in the national average and in the comparison of the federal states in the middle.
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