DRIVERS, WATCH OUT IN PARKING LOTS
| ARLINGTON, VA.
About 20 percent of all auto insurance claims stem from incidents occurring in parking lots, often when one vehicle was parked or standing. The finding comes from a survey of passenger cars at 16 drive-in insurance claims centers in four metropolitan areas by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Bumpers, fenders, rear quarter panels, and lamps were the car parts most often damaged in low-speed urban crashes, the survey says.