SPX/Berlin. The lockdown in spring 2020 had a positive effect on motor vehicle damage caused by marten bites. The insurance umbrella organization GDV counted around 217,000 of these damages to comprehensively insured vehicles in 2020, a drop of 7 percent compared to the previous year. The amount of damage amounted to 90 million euros. Marten bites were the third most common type of damage in partial comprehensive insurance, after glass breakage caused by falling rocks and accidents involving wild animals.
The GDV sees the reasons for fewer marten bite attacks on cars in the fact that vehicles were used less frequently during the lockdown and were therefore less moved from marten territory to marten territory. So there were fewer reasons for the territorial animals to attack the vehicles, which smelled like other martens, by biting through hoses
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