As I may have mentioned before our Superb has a personal plate with the first three letters are LOV (lima, oscar, victor) followed by numbers.
Some months ago, probably when it was still on the 'lingo I registered it with WestPark, a system used by West Northants Council to automate payment on various council run car parks.
Mrs B was in town today for an eye test and parked Seoras the Skoda on the main car park for Northampton's shopping precinct.
When she tried to leave the barrier wouldn't open. Eventually, after some wall>head>bang trouble with the guy on the barrier intercom she paid by card and escaped.
Rang the Council to report the problem and it seems entry and exit cameras had rendered the middle O as a numeric zero. While clearly not a legitimate UK number it seems there's no format validation so the system can deal with non UK plates.
Now added Lima Zero Victor variant so hopefully we'll be ok going forward.
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Number Plate Misread. new
Number Plate Misread. new