Potholes are the biggest concern among drivers in Britain, the RAC suggests. Britain's roads were the main concern for almost six out of 10 people in research by the RAC. It topped the list of motoring complaints for the first time - ahead of insurance costs and fuel prices.
RAC research suggested that pothole damage cost drivers on average £460 - with punctures, wheel damage and broken suspension springs the most commonly reported in the past 12 months. The BBC is reporting that RAC members now say Potholes are drivers top concern. No one is taking about the years of scientists warnings that as rainfall increases because of climate change so are potholes.
We are a world in denial. https://t.co/aOZqbkkDSh Some drivers get so frustrated with the motoring menace that they devise creative ways to capture the size of the problem.
Alan from Macclesfield climbed inside the crater and sent the pictures to his local council. “They did finally fill” it, he said. The Department for Transport said it was helping councils to fix "up to one million more potholes a year".
Potholes can prove dangerous and costly, the RAC's research warned. Elizabeth Atter told the BBC that her 89-year-old mother had been knocked out after falling in a pothole in Caversham, near Reading. Another reader, Richard Underhill from Milford-on-Sea in Hampshire, said his Porsche needed two tyres replaced after he hit a pothole.
“A car in front of me at the tyre depot had hit the same pothole,” he said. Howe.