![]() ![]() ![]() How the in-coming government, with its budget tightening agenda will effect the implementation of the above plan is not known. Later that year a workshop with stakeholders was held, and in 2017 it was reported that, “The government has plans to embed microchips in vehicle registration plates in a bid to put an end to vanity number plates.”Īfter the fifteenth General Election on the 9 th of May 2018, the incumbent government of six decades was ousted from power. In 2016, to battle the increasing use of custom number plates to evade speed cameras or to reduce readability, Malaysia’s Road Transport Department also known by its Malay acronym JPJ and the Deputy Transport Minister at the time, Datuk Aziz Kaprawi announced that the JPJ will “implement a centralised production scheme for new standardised licence plates in the second half of this year, using metal plates with stamping” as implemented in Singapore and Thailand. ![]() It is believed that the number plates were customised. Witnesses at the scene were unable to identify the number plates of at least three of the six vehicles. ![]() Two of the vehicles were involved in the collision that led to the deaths. On the 2 nd of May 2015, a family of three were killed in an accident that involved six other vehicles racing on the DUKE highway, Kuala Lumpur. Note: the latest follow-up to this article can be read here and here. ![]()
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