The DVLA meets up twice a year to comb through potentially rude and offensive number plates
All new cars in the UK will be rolled out with the brand new 23 plates attached due to a new DVLA issue.
A meeting is held twice a year prior to a new number plate release so staff can comb through all the potential registration plates to look for "combinations of numbers and letters where we consider that they may cause offence, embarrassment or are in poor taste”. The list of ‘23’ plates was obtained by carwow via a freedom of information request, revealing plates that would always be rude, as well as some that coukld be offensive in the current situation, Wales Online reports.
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