Fewer car fires were reported last year for the first time since 2018. A total of 4,750 reports of a car fire were sent via the P2000 network. ANP reports this on the basis of data from the alarmerings.nl website.
Last year 4,750 reports of car fires were sent via the P2000 alarm network. That is 13 percent less than the almost 5,600 reports for car fires that were issued a year earlier.
The data collected by alarmerings.nl shows that not every province has reported fewer car fires. In Flevoland, for example, with 133 reports, 30 percent more reports for a car fire were sent, and more cars went up in flames in Drenthe and Friesland than in 2020. In these provinces, 7.8 and 6.1 more reports were made in succession. car fire sent. With 1,089 there were the most reports of a car fire in South Holland.
Amsterdam has the dubious honor of being the city where the most cars caught fire with 259 reports, followed by The Hague and Rotterdam with successively 253 and 198 reports. Notable ‘growers’ are the places Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and Assen. In Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, the number of car fires rose from one in 2020 to nine in 2021, while 37 instead of 20 cars burned out in Assen.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl