PERSONALISED number plates have been a thing for as long as regular number plates have been around.
In fact, the first ever number plate issued in the UK way back in 1903 was personalised - though this was not on purpose.
Nowadays things are a bit different and there is a process to getting a personalised number plate, though there are limits to what one can request.
The DVLA ban number plates that “may cause offence, embarrassment, or are in poor taste” - which means there are quite a few banned each year.
This year more than 300 plates have been banned.
Excluding some of the most offensive plates that have been banned (this is a family paper after all), here are some of the strangest banned number plates in 2022.
Banned 22 number plates
- GO22 HLL - A few variations on this one, not the nicest thing to display for other road users.
- MU22 GDD - One of a few plates linked to crime, it's a litttle unclear as to how this could cause any offence other than not being funny.
- CR22 SST - A lesson here in blasphemy.
- CO22 RNA - We could all probably do with a break from unneccesary reminders about the pandemic.
- PE22 VRT - Excuse me?! Also see PE22 RVT.
- SU22 CDE - Just incredibly poor taste.
- UK22 BAD - Is this a protest plate? Regardless, anyone planning on getting this will have to think again.
- BO22 OCX - Ah the classics never get old, bonus points for having an 'X' in there.
- BA22 ARD - Did Sean Bean request this one?
- TE22 ROR - Anyone who wanted this is obviously very, very tough and scary with no insecurities at all.
- MA22 TYR - Might not be the best plan for any aspiring martyr to plaster it to their vehicle.
- GO22 WAR - I don't think anyone is going to be enlisting on the basis of a number plate
- GB22 KKK - Absolutely not, banning this one unfortunately makes it slightly harder to spot the white supremecists on the road - though the hood could be a give away.
There are of course hundreds more banned number plates but we decided to omit the obviously bigoted or explicit plates - you can probably figure out what the rest say.
However if you want to satisfy your curiosity, then visit the National Numbers website here.
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