Car key robbery is on the rise warn Car Insurance Companies

Motorists and home owners are being urged to be more security conscious in an attempt to defeat the rise of car key theft from houses. A recent report has revealed that nearly 13 per cent of all recorded crime is linked to vehicle theft. During the recent credit crunch brazen criminals are trying their luck to steal car keys from people’s homes in order to take a car and use it for further criminal activity. Some of the ways these thieves are taking car keys is by entering homes through doors that have been left unlocked or open or by ‘car-jacking’ which is an act of aiming to steal a car at a set of traffic lights and force the occupants out of the vehicle in order to drive off with it. This is a serious crime that has led t

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