05-01-15 13:15 – Source: Reuters
An employee of the city cleaning cleans up the remnants of fireworks and other debris. © anp
The damage caused by fireworks and vandalism at the turn to private homes and cars is approximately 13 million euros and is thus higher than last year, when the loss totaled EUR 9 million.
According to figures from the Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) of the Association of Insurers. The final amount of damage of this new year will still rise sharply because medical costs and damages to businesses and schools are not yet known. The claims of alone the fires in Uden and Alkmaar is expected that transcend individuals.
This year could be chipped on December 31 for the first time starts at 18:00 fireworks and there were more than 35 municipalities one or more fireworks free zones. That despite the damage is higher, coming under the Covenant because it was a dry new year unlike last year
. Illegal fireworks, but also wish balloons
The estimate is based on the first data from insurers, where policyholders since New Year’s Eve and digital filing through call centers claims. The claims include both relatively minor damage as a result of accidents in and around the home, but also large losses as heavily damaged cars and roofs and / or facades. Often there was heavy (illegal fireworks) in the game.
Insurers indicate that so-called desire balloons, crashing once the paper catches fire, increasingly concerned for damage to roofs and sheds.
Whether or not to ban
The Association believes that it is up to politicians to determine whether a ban on the lighting of fireworks needs? to come. The trade association Moreover, such that most of the damage caused by illegal fireworks, improper off legal fireworks and vandalism. “Good information about the off legal fireworks and adequate enforcement remains paramount,” says director Richard Weurding of the Covenant.
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