Motor claims are often a lot of old bollards, finds claims handling company Town & Country, which has released a top ten.
It finds the most popular motor claim is for colliding with stationary objects, such as walls and bollards, which accounted of 15% of claims.
In second place was third parties hitting clients from behind (9.4%), followed by the client returning the favour to a third party (7.7%).
The fourth most common claim was the client's car being hit by an unknown third party (6.2%).
In joint fifth place were the client reversing into a third party and the client hitting an unattended third party vehicle (5.7%).
The seventh most common claim was a third party hitting the client's unattended vehicle (3.2%).
Next came third parties reversing into the client's vehicle (3.1%).
Inconsiderate third parties also fill the final two places, in ninth place they were turning across the client's vehicle (3.0%) and in tenth place they were emerging incautiously from sideroads (2.3%).
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