Thanks to Tony Richardson for ‘putting me right’ on the difficulty for the man in street to buy duplicate vehicle number plates. But if he’d bothered to read the last paragraph of my letter, he might realise it’s down to who you know, rather than what the law says.

I don’t think that the ordinary man in the street would even think about trying to obtain duplicate plates for immoral gain, but if he’s under the impression that it’s difficult, maybe he should count the number of vehicles he sees on the road each day with illegally spaced ‘personalised’ number plates, supplied without question to the man in the street, by bona-fide number plate makers, presumably supported by the vehicle V5, and regularly ignored by traffic police patrols. It raises the other question that if a vehicle’s number plate digits are illegally spaced – is it technically uninsured? That’s another can of worms – maybe the police department would like to comment?

Clive Harrison, Quarhill Close, Over Norton

 

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