Driving licence numbers
Brian Doolan
Anybody know the composition of the UK driving licence number.
I know it consists of the drivers DOB but what are the other numbers ?
Thanks,
Brian.
Alison
>Anybody know the composition of the UK driving licence number.
>I know it consists of the drivers DOB but what are the other numbers ?
AFAIK the driver No. on a UK driving licence is made up as follows:
for Miss Amanda Beth Smith dob 30th April 1961
SMITH/654301/AB9ZX
Section 1 = First 5 letters of surname
Section 2 = The first and last numbers are the year of birth ie 61
The 4th and 5th digits are the date of birth ie
30th. The 2nd and 3rd digits are the month of
birth adding a 5 to the second digit if the
licence holder is female.
Section3 = The first 2 digits are the intials followed by 3 random
check digits. Maybe if a person had three names
all three initials would be shown in this
section with 2 random check digits.
Alison
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>Alison
>
>Rules:-
>Rules are made for the obedience of fools,
>and for the guidance of the wise .
How very true!
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Jon Clark
In article <355CC883...@globalnet.co.uk>, Brian Doolan
<gasm...@globalnet.co.uk> writes
>Anybody know the composition of the UK driving licence number.
>I know it consists of the drivers DOB but what are the other numbers ?
>
>
>Brian.
>
eg, JONES/701231/PA9AX
first bit is first 5 letters from surname
middle bit is your whole birthday jumble up.
in this case 23rd January 1972 (23-01-71)
the month number, the day number and the two digits from the year separated and
place either side of the other four digits.
the last section will be up to 3 of your initials followed by what appears to be
a random 2 or 3 digits/letters, depending on wether you have 2 or 3 forenames.
These letters/numbers actually have a particular meaning (i used to have a list
but cannot find it) and refer to wether the licence is a duplicate issue (in
this case the code would become PA8AX, the `8` being the operative), for example
or wether you have been banned in the past or wether any special medical
restrictions are in force etc.
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Jon Clark
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Vicki Portman
Alison wrote:
>
>
> for Miss Amanda Beth Smith dob 30th April 1961
>
> SMITH/654301/AB9ZX
>
> Section 1 = First 5 letters of surname
> Section 2 = The first and last numbers are the year of birth ie 61
> The 4th and 5th digits are the date of birth ie
>
> 30th. The 2nd and 3rd digits are the month of
> birth adding a 5 to the second digit if the
> licence holder is female.
> Section3 = The first 2 digits are the intials followed by 3 random
>
> check digits. Maybe if a person had three names
>
> all three initials would be shown in this
> section with 2 random check digits.
>
No (a propos your last comment). I have three names, and only the first
two initials are shown.
Vicki
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My name is emma Jayne manning
Dob 150701
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Joyce Whitchurch
> I don't know my driving licence number
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trishl...@gmail.com
NY
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says:
PEARS (first five letters of surname)
Digits 1 and 5 are 7 and 8 (year)
Digits 2 and 3 are 5 and 9 (month 09, but with 50 added because you are
female)
Digits 4 and 5 are 2 and 7 (day 27)
Px or P9 (where x is your second initial if you have one, 9 if not)
yyy (three checksum digits)
So yours would be PEARS759278Pxyyy
bol...@nowhere.co.uk
trishl...@gmail.com wrote:
>Can anyone help me do my licence number PATRICIA PEARSON 27.09.1978
Seems to me you're trying to find out someones license number to cause
them trouble or carry out some sort of scam so I suggest you go swivel on it.
Mark Goodge
surname, if she's changed her name (eg, on marriage) since getting the
email account.
Mark
bol...@nowhere.co.uk
strike you as just a little bit odd?
NY
news:t73ghf1er7eskb6bq...@4ax.com...
that the email address could date from before a change of surname; I bet
Gmail can't change the email address of an existing account. She may well
have kept the old address if she carried on using her maiden name after
marriage, even if her official name on driving licence, passport etc was
changed.
One thing I noticed about the coding for the licence number is that it can't
handle two people with the same name born on the same day: John Arthur Smith
and John Alfred Smith both born on 1 January 1990 would have the same
number. Maybe that's what the final three computer-generated characters are
used for - disambiguation as well as just checksum.
Mark Goodge
>One thing I noticed about the coding for the licence number is that it can't
>handle two people with the same name born on the same day: John Arthur Smith
>and John Alfred Smith both born on 1 January 1990 would have the same
>number. Maybe that's what the final three computer-generated characters are
>used for - disambiguation as well as just checksum.
format of the part that is derived from the personal details, but the
remaining characters are for disambiguation, not a checksum.
I'm not sure where the idea that they are a checksum came from, but a
quick bit of Googling reveals several websites that have identical text
to that on the one cited - even down to the same example licence - so it
looks as if someone, somewhere was the first to makwe that wrong
conclusion and then it's been copied and pasted around the web.
Mark
nightjar
..
> strike you as just a little bit odd?
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bol...@nowhere.co.uk
nightjar <c...@bignell.me.uk> wrote:
>On 22/07/2020 11:00, bol...@nowhere.co.uk wrote:
>> strike you as just a little bit odd?
>
>Certainly my first thought was why not just look at the licence?
No wonder scammers have such success.