Pothole cost me £100 repair bill

Jul 22 2011 by Andrew Welsh, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

Dear Editor, – On February 19 I went over a pothole in Perth and broke the spring in my car. It cost me just over £100 to fix it. A couple of days after it happened the hole was filled.

I put in a claim to P&K Council and apparently because the highway concerned is inspected at regular intervals of every month and the date of the last inspection prior to the accident no defect was found – also no other complaints relating to that area were reported – I lost the claim.

Today I notice the same hole has been filled a second time as I pass it all the time and try to dodge the hole.

It’s a shame that honest people like myself lose out in situations like this when so many people neither pay council tax nor road tax.

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