Around 60% of drivers think the roads are worse than a year ago, according to the RAC, and naming road surface quality as the main issue 🛣️
A ‘pothole crisis’ is gripping the UK – and it’s all down to the winter freeze which has left roads blighted with cracks and holes.Around 60% of drivers think the roads are worse than a year ago, according to the RAC, and naming road surface quality as the main issue.
Dazie Warne, 27, hit a water-filled pothole in Ashford, Kent, on New Year’s Eve and damaged both her front and back tyre on one side.‘Three other people pulled in while I was there waiting to get picked up. They had all just gone down that same pothole.’ David Ward, secretary of Tenterden Labour branch in Kent described the situation in his county as ‘deadly serious’.He said: ‘It is very concerning as there are about 20 potholes in East Cross – the whole road surface is breaking up.
The problem is also bad in Scotland because only 15.76% of pothole claims were paid out in 2021-2022, but it was the city of Glasgow that saw the lowest rate of compensation for pothole damage.This pothole in Ashford, Kent, has caught many a driver out
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