Lancashire County Council has been paying out significant sums to drivers whose vehicles have been damaged by potholes and other road defects. The council has paid out £194,000 in compensation over the past three years.
Lancashire County Council has paid out £194,000 in compensation to motorists whose vehicles have been damaged by potholes and other highway defects over the past three years. The authority carries out routine inspections of the more than 4,000 miles of road in the county for which it is responsible, in order to defend itself against claims that it has failed to maintain the highway network adequately.
However, County Hall has nevertheless had to shell out in some of the cases brought against it. The figures, obtained by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, show a recent peak in payouts of £77,918 in 2021/22. The total fell to £45,973 during 2022/23, before rising again to £70,265 last year, 2023/24.It is not known how many individual claims were successful over the three-year period nor the number that were lodged in total. The compensation tally covers all types of carriageway defect – meaning it relates not only to standard potholes, but other issues such as damaged gullies and grid and manhole covers that have become raised from the road because of the disintegration of the surrounding surface. In total there are nine potential dangers categorised by the county council, each of which is assigned a timeframe for repair depending on its possible impact – rated high, medium or low – and the classification of the road on which it has been found. High and medium impact defect fixes can range from two days on the most significant A-routes to 20 days on unclassified roads, while those deemed to have a low impact are done at the discretion of the highway inspecto
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