KEMPTON Park is 13th on the list of the highest-risk areas for vehicle hijacking and theft in Gauteng.
This is according to a presentation published on the Arrive Alive website and compiled by C-Track, based on January 2017 crime statistics and showing the highest-risk areas and suburbs in the country.
Honeydew tops the list, followed by Booysens and Roodepoort.
Other East Rand town listed are Boksburg North (6th), Benoni (23rd), Germiston (25th) and Boksburg (30th).
The data released by the tracking and fleet management company also shows that Gauteng, as expected, is still the car crime capital by a huge margin, accounting for 64 per cent of vehicle theft and hijacking, followed by KwaZulu-Natal (15%), Western Cape (7%), Eastern Cape (5%), and Mpumalanga (3%).
According to C-Track, 50% of all vehicle thefts took the form of hijackings while 47% were conventional thefts and 3% took place during robberies.
Most incidents took place on a Tuesday (18%), followed Friday (16%), Wednesday and Thursday (15%), Saturday (13%), Monday (12%) and Sunday (11%).
