Tuesday 3rd July 2001
Crackdown
It's expected next year that number plate suppliers will become subject to increased controls to prevent fraud. With speed cameras making motorists' lives a misery, many former law-abiding drivers are taking the easy option of having false plates made up, often with just a single digit incorrect. Moves are afoot to ensure that suppliers report all number plates made up and to require proof of entitlement to the number being made.
Discussion
there are two types of false plates - altering a number so that it doesn't match your vehicle and changing the number to match an identical vehicle belonging to someone else (ringed).
Both should offences should carry serious penalties - how would you feel if someone changed their vehicle number to match yours!
That doesn't mean that I agree with the evermore pervasive way that speed cameras are filling someone elses coffers.
Just wait until you get a speeding ticket that you didn't deserve and try proving you that your not guilty.
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