List of banned car number plates revealed – don’t be caught out

A NEW list of banned number plates has been revealed, following the launch of the “23” plate for vehicles.

SH23GER, OR23ASM and BO23OCK are all on the banned list, alongside number plates celebrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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DVLA bosses rushed to draw up the plates after the “23” plate was launched for vehicles registered from the beginning of this month.

New cars are allocated plates containing the last two digits of the year they are registered in, meaning vehicles first hitting the road this year will have “23 plates”.

Although new registration plates often boost sales, they also give naughty motorists an opportunity to distract other drivers with lewd combinations.

Censors meeting at the DVLA’s base in Swansea agreed that PE23VRT, SC23TUM and FA23NNY are all likely to take drivers’ eyes off the road.

Plates believed to signal gang affiliations or terrorist sympathies, like JH23HAD, have also been on put on the list.

With an eye to the times, the DVLA has banned CO23ONA and YE23WAR, alongside plates spelling out racial slurs.

The list became public after Carwow experts handed DVLA bureaucrats a Freedom of Information request.

A Carwow spokesperson told This is Money: “Few drivers are likely to want to be told to GO23 HEL or EA23 POO by the car in front, for example, while nobody wants to share the road with a BA23 TRD, a PS23 CHO, a TO23 ERR or an AA23 OLE.

“BO23 OKS and MU23 DER are also likely to cause perennial offence.

“More recent events have led to plates such as RU23 UKR, NO23 RUS and YE23 WAR being suppressed, however, alongside CO23 ONA and EU23 BAD.”

The DVLA reserves the right to ban plates at a later date, should a rude one slip through the bi-annual list.

Carwow’s Hugo Young said: “While few would argue against the suppression of offensive number plates, the biannual meetings where DVLA staff sit down and deliberately come up with rude combinations must be one of the highlights of the organisation’s calendar.”

Brits have spent around £2billion on personalised plates since the DVLA started selling them in 1989, with 400,000 bought each year.

It comes after the Sun revealed the jaw-dropping prices Britain’s rudest private plates are fetching online.

ORG45M sold for £150,000 on the Regtransfers website, while F15TME went for £11,246.

Last year we were the first to lay hands on the DVLA’s “22” blacklist, with BE22END, VA22GNA and BU22SHT banned from the road.

Full list of banned number plates

D23UGY

D23UNK

N23GAR

N23GER

N23GAS

N23GGA

N23GGR

N23GRO

N23GRR

N23GRS

N23GRZ

N23GUR

S23LAG

T23WAT

AA23HLE

AA23HOL

AA23NAL

AA23OLE

AA23RSE

AA23RYN

AA23YAN

AB23ORT

AF23GOT

AH23TLR

AK23YKE

AR23YAN

AS23BOY

AS23FWC

AS23HLE

AS23OLE

AW23NKR

AW23NKS

BA23TAD

BA23TRD

BA23TUD

BJ23BOY

BJ23FAB

BJ23GAL

BJ23GAY

BJ23GRL

BJ23LAS

BL23JOB

BL23WJB

BO23LOC

BO23LOK

BO23LOX

BO23OCK

BO23OCS

BO23OCZ

BOS23OCX

BO23OKS

BO23OKX

BR23EDL

BU23OMB

BY23RUS

BY23UKR

CA23OMB

CC23EDL

CO23CKK

CO23CKS

CO23ONA

CO23RNA

CR23PLE

CRR23PPL

DD23UNK

EA23DCK

EA23DKS

EA23DYK

EA23FWF

EA23GAL

EA23GRL

EA23HER

EA23MEE

EA23MME

EA23MOT

EA23MUT

EA23NOB

EA23POO

EA23PWP

EA23VAG

EA23VAJ

EU23BAD

EU23BOM

EU23FWC

EU23OFF

EU23OMB

EU23RUS

EU23SHT

EU23UKR

EU23WAR

FA23NNY

FE23ATE

FF23GOT

FF23KED

FF23KER

FK23RUS

FK23RUS

FK23UKR

FK23VAJ

GA23EDD

GA23LOW

GA23NJA

GA23OMB

GB23BAD

GB23BOM

GB23DED

GB23DED

GB23DWN

GB23FKT

GB23GNG

GB23GUN

GB23HTR

GB23KLL

GB23KLR

GB23KLS

GB23MOB

GB23RUS

GB23SHT

GB23UKR

GB23WAR

GO23BCK

GO23BLE

GO23FUC

GO23HEL

G023HLL

GO23OMB

GO23PRC

GO23PRK

GO23RUS

GO23SHT

GO23UKR

GO23WAR

GR23OPE

HE23OLA

HE23REW

HE23ULA

HH23TLR

HH23WAR

HS23ULA

JH23HAD

JY23HAD

KK23YKE

KN23FED

KN23FER

KN23FES

KN23FEU

KN23FEX

KN23VED

KN23VES

KN23VEU

KN23VEX

KR23PLE

LE23BOO

LES23BOS

LE23EAN

LE23EEN

LE23ERS

LE23OES

LE23OOS

LE23RRS

LE23RSS

LE23YAN

LE23ZAA

LE23ZAR

LE23ZAS

LE23ZAY

LE23ZAZ

LE23ZBO

LE23ZER

LE23ZRR

LE23ZRS

LE23ZZA

LE23ZZR

MG23RUS

MG23UKR

M023EST

MU23DER

MU23ERR

MU23ERS

MU23ERU

MU23ERZ

NE23NOG

NE23ROO

NE23RRO

NE23RRO

NE23GAR

NG23GAR

NG23GER

NG23GGA

NG23GGR

NG23GRR

NG23GUR

NO23ARM

NO23BLK

NO23COP

NO23END

NO23ER

NO23FUZ

NO23GAY

NO23LAC

NO23LAK

NO23LCK

NO23LEZ

NO23LKS

NO23MLF

NO23MOT

NO23MUF

NO23MUM

NO23PRK

NO23RUS

NO23UKR

NO23UMM

NO23UUM

OR23ASM

PE23ADO

PE23VRT

PK23YKE

PS23CHO

PU23ES

PU23SAY

PU23SUX

RU23FWF

RU23OMB

RU23UKR

SC23OTE

SC23OTM

SC23TOM

SC23TUM

SH23GED

SH23GER

SS23JUW

SS23WAR

SS23XRW

TE23ROR

TO23ERR

TO23ERS

TO23ERZ

TO23RAH

UA23RSE

UA23RYN

UA23RYN

UD23UNK

UF23GOT

UH23OMO

UK23ANG

UK23RUS

UK23UKR

UK23YKE

UN23GER

UN23RUS

UN23UKR

UP23RUS

UP23UKR

UR23REM

UW23NKR

UW23NKS

VU23LVA

WA23RUS

WA23UKR

WE23APE

WH23EDL

WH23REE

WH23RES

YA23DEE

YA23DYS

YE23DTH

YE23RUS

YE23UKR

YE23WAR

YE23DTH

YS23WAR