In a new piece of research carried out by the motor loans and insurance business AA Personal Loans, it has been found that around fifty per cent of UK drivers cannot tell the year of a car by the new style number plates.
This could have other problems for drivers too, because there is an on going police and DVLA operation that is seeking out cars that have had their number plates altered to produce words etc, as it is an offence to alter the spacing of the letters and numbers on a number plate. It is believed that if drivers do not recognise that alteration, they are running the risk of being pulled up.
Yet these new style number plates have been around for some seven years now, the first cars being those registered in 2001 with numbers being 51. However it does seem that drivers who passed their driving test after the new style number plates came out are in fact more likely to understand the system more than those who passed before the new system was introduced.
This years 08 number plates appear to be the ones which are going to confuse drivers more than ever, in the survey these number plates are most likely to cause confusion September ’08 were SE08 FLG (11%), SP08 GDH (11%), RO88 UHL (2%) and SP85 JGH (2%). People planning on buying a car that is 08 registered should make sure that they understand the new number plate numbering system beforehand.
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