Level 5 Immobilizer

In South Africa we pay rather expensive car insurance premiums not only for protection from vehicle accidents and road safety risks – but also to protect from vehicle theft and hijackings! We have a wide variety of vehicle security features available on the market and we are able to pick and choose and to compare these with one another.

Vehicle security features range from the top end DataDot and vehicle tracking technology to the more everyday immobilizers and vehicle alarms. We have also addressed on the Car Insurance Blog aspects such as safe parking and hijacking avoidance measures.

Earlier today the Arrive Alive Website received an email titled “Level 5 Immobilizer” – and this is an indication of how far some vehicle owner will go to protect their vehicles. This is

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A vehicle is stolen in the United States every 33 seconds–that’s nearly 1,000,000 vehicles a year.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) tracks auto theft, and publishes a “Hot Spots” list annually. The list shows the auto theft rates on a per-capita basis in metro areas around the United States. A Metropolitan Statistical Unit (MSA) contains a major urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000 people and the surrounding area it serves–there are 366 MSAs in the United States. Theft rates are expressed as auto thefts per 100,000 people, so a theft rate of 500 would mean that 5 of every 1,000 people had their car stolen.

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