One or a used car Biohazard Katrina
At the suffering and losses worked by Hurricane Katrina, add the potential for fraud unprecedented - and risk - the resale of cars damaged by the storm.
Since the hurricane met on 29 August, automobile clubs and criminal prosecution authorities warn consumers to consider used cars to analyze water damage and their stories. Because a damaged car titles can be “washed” - State laws make it relatively easy to obtain a clean title in one state for a vehicle of the mark of a “flood” or “salvage” title in another — Such warnings are always more storms.
But Katrina’s automotive was hardly routine losses. Car, sat in sewage and fuel, contaminated water in New Orleans could pose risks than ever for everyone, handles the vehicles or parts thereof, after the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair, a nonprofit organization, advice on the prevention and reduction of environmental pollution and health of workers on safety issues segments of the automotive industry, but also repairs.
“This is not just another flood vehicle is a totally different animal,” said Robert Stewart, the group of presidents.
The coordination committee has prepared a report on the website warning that contaminated sludge in May threaten doors, rails, rocker panels and gas and that the interior and carpets can be pathogenic near the port. The flooded cars should be regarded as biohazards, the group said.
“We can not tell you if a car from New Orleans never be sure,” said Lirel Holt, past chairman of the coordination committee.
Carfax, the nation a leading provider of information on the history of each vehicle is estimated that 570000 cars were damaged May by Katrina. Louisiana officials say, 300000 were May in New Orleans.
An ambitious project to help consumers identify at least some hurricane damaged vehicles available online Friday. On the website of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, www.nicb.org, one can in a car 17 digits vehicle identification number, VIN, to determine whether the 60000 identified so far in a database vehicles damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The insurance crime bureau, a nonprofit organization funded by insurance companies on the frontline in the fight against auto theft and insurance fraud, working with the Louisiana State Police on collecting VIN numbers both insured and uninsured vehicles.
Frank G. Scafidi, a spokesman for the insurance crime bureau, said more information on transport vehicles, including the title of history, would be made available to law enforcement and automotive services across the nation, and vehicle manufacturers to information such as Carfax history.
So far, the site is only lists WINE 3300’s New Orleans for vehicles. The vast majority of damaged cars have been listed so far, where contamination was less likely in other parts of Louisiana or Alabama and Mississippi. Most vehicles were insured, the settlements have been made, “said Scafidi.
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