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More police departments have stopped taking accident reports

This is trend is expected to rise as local law enforcement agencies face budget cutbacks and other demands on their time. How will this affect Auto insurance claims?

By Stephen Applebaum | Updated on January 07, 2016

Although this challenge has been developing for some time, it is just now becoming widely apparent that police departments nationally are no longer able to respond to or document routine auto accidents.

Shrinking operating budgets, compounded by the new and higher priority demands of protecting communities from civil unrest as well as domestic and foreign terrorism, are increasingly pushing accident-scene attendance down to the bottom of police priority lists.

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