Whilst on holiday in France in July of this year, my Jeep was hit by an 80 year old Frenchman who failed to stop at a cross roads. The insurance company decided that it wasn’t worth repairing and declared the vehicle a category A write-off, meaning it could not be brought back to the UK.

I expressed concern about transferring the personalised number as there was no engineer’s report and the car would just be dumped in France, but was advised there would be no problem getting the DVLA to transfer it.

Since then the DVLA have said as they cannot inspect the car and there is no engineer’s report then the number cannot be transferred. The insurance company now say it’s nothing to do with them.

Please warn your readers/followers that you will lose a highly expensive personalised number in these circumstances and the insurance company say that the number is not covered by insurance!