Reporting potholes?

On my drive to work each day I end up hitting a fair few potholes, which vary in size from those you can only just feel to those which feel like your spine has just shattered. I thought I would report...

Is this a record for the fastest pothole repair ever?

Is this a record? My email to Bridgend CBC to fix my road about a deepening pothole was timed at 11.15 on 29/6/12. I drove past the site at 16.15 and it had already been repaired.

Pot holes - What happens next?

Whilst driving to work today, I had to pull in sharply to let someone pass on a narrow road which meant I went into a fairly large pot hole (2-3 inches deep - photo taken). It damaged both of my passenger...

Our local authorities have spent £840,000 on speed 'tables' on our roads - is this a total waste?

I follow your campaign against speed bumps, potholes and related damage to vehicles with interest and dismay at the attitude of many local authorities. When an apparently pointless and useless traffic...

To have and to hole

On 18th January 2011, at approx 21.15, so dark, I was driving along the A13 when I hit a large pothole in the road. The damage was quite bad with a bent front right alloy wheel and some tracking damage....

Good cheap used car for rough roads

I own a Mercedes ML 2004 and I want something smaller, preferably an estate or hatch back as I have 2 small dogs. I live down an unmade road with 2 cattle grids, so something with a bit more ground clearance...

Perk scratchings

My wife and I had a good chuckle over one of your readers experience with a tipsy council official. We attended an official council event once, and were quite staggered by the volume of expensive wines...

Can I claim from the local council for damage caused to my car by a pothole?

Three days ago I suffered a blowout of my nearside rear tyre that resulted in a replacement at a cost of £96.60. This was caused by a 6-inch pothole adjacent to a drainage grid that I have photographed...

Where can I report dangerous potholes that need repairing?

I am currently visiting the Bedworth area. I was here in January and was shocked by the state of the roads. The roundabout below junction three of the M6 had huge holes in the road surface, and they are...

Motorway mileage muncher

I have a quandry. I live 1 mile down a rutted farm track. I commute 250 (motorway) miles to work each week but the 10 miles at each end of the journey are on rough windy country lanes. I have long legs...