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Car accident repairs take severe knock
Number of insurance-funded car accident repairs has fallen sharply as vehicle usage has declined, but insurance premiums have increased.
An estimated 4.55 million car body repairs will be carried out in 2012, down 22% from a peak of 5.81 million in 2006, thanks partly to high fuel prices causing a decline in car use -
Number of car body repairs falls by over a fifth in a decade
Running profitable bodyshops has never been easy, but in almost two decades of studying the UK market for car body repairs, specialist research firm Trend Tracker Ltd says it’s never been as tough as it is now. (For more details about this report see http://www.trendtracker.co.uk/store/2012/10/the-future-of-the-uk-car-body-repair-market-2012-2017