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We rely on our cars every day to get us where we need to go, but what do you do when your primary mode of transportation disappears? A motor vehicle is stolen every 44 seconds in the United States and July and August are the top two months for vehicle theft. Now a new report finds that after eight years of decline thefts are on the rise again.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau has released a list of hot spots for vehicle theft for 2012 and found that eight of the 10 regions are in California and the remaining two are in Washington state. Overall the West region--which includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming--was most affected with a 10.6 percent increase in thefts over the previous year. Preliminary 2012 FBI figures estimate a 1.3 percent increase in 2012 overall across the country (new FBI data will be released in the fall).
