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Top 11 Holidays for Vehicle Thefts

New Year's Day was the most active holiday for vehicle thefts in 2012 with 2,228 reported thefts across the country.

By Caterina Pontoriero | Updated on January 02, 2014

New Year’s Day was the most active holiday for vehicle thefts in 2012 with 2,228 reported thefts across the country, according to the National Crime Information Center’s vehicle theft data report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau. In second place is Labor Day with 2,158 thefts, closely followed by New Year’s Eve with 2,152 thefts.

Conversely, the holiday with the least thefts was Christmas with 1,432 thefts. Thieves must be filled with the Christmas spirit around the holiday, because Dec. 25 was the date with the lowest reported thefts of anyday in 2012 as well.

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