ONE-IN-FIVE BRITISH DRIVERS CARRY WEAPONS ON BOARD FOR SELF-DEFENCE
16 September 2005 - Tracker Network (UK) Ltd

More than a fifth (22 per cent) of drivers who bought a car worth at least £15,000 in the last 12 months feel so unsafe on Britain''s roads that they carry some form of self-defence in their vehicle.

The alarming statistic comes from the UK''s leading stolen vehicle recovery company, TRACKER.

The most popular form of self-defence was a personal alarm, carried by nine per cent of drivers, while six per cent admitted to carrying a club, bat or hammer. Four per cent of respondents said they kept a knife to hand and the same number said they had a self-defence spray stored in their car. A small number (1.5 per cent) claimed they kept a firearm in their car for defence.

The figures are in stark contrast with motorists who had a stolen vehicle recovery (SVR) device such as a system supplied by TRACKER fitted to their vehicle, only seven per cent of whom claim to keep any form of self-defence in their vehicle.

Parita Patel, marketing manager at TRACKER, commented: ''We are surprised and concerned by the number of people that feel the need to carry weapons to defend themselves and their cars when driving on Britain''s roads.

''The only reassuring news to take from this is that motorists with a TRACKER system fitted do feel safer in their vehicles do feel safer on the road. We think this is because they know that if threatened for their vehicle they can hand the keys over without a fight and we will get it back and possibly help the Police catch the assailant as well.''

TRACKER has retrieved more than 13,200 stolen vehicles since 1993, valued at more than £260 million and has led the police to the arrest of over 1,700 vehicle thieves.

www.tracker.co.uk

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