How to report a pothole

The UK’s roads are in a state of disrepair – not only is the government looking at a £12billion repair bill to bring them up to scratch, motorists are shelling out about £100million a year in repair bills due to damage triggered by potholes.

And as if that wasn’t adequate, neighborhood authorities are paying out much more than £30million in compensation claims made as a outcome of poor roads.

So potholes are proving a extremely pricey dilemma for all concerned.

The difficulty is, if the council doesn’t know the hole is there, it can not repair it. So it is the responsibility of all road users to report a pothole so it can go on the repair list – and join the current potholes which, if bundled together, would occupy 295 square miles of our green and pleasant and increasingly pockmarked land.

Here’s how you can very easily do your bit…

Reporting a pothole

If you hit a pothole, instead of just cursing at the state of the road and going on your way, report the difficulty to the local authority.

To make the reporting approach a entire lot less difficult, we’ve teamed up with Street Repairs to bring you this handy tool – just fill in the blanks and your neighborhood authority will be alerted to the dilemma and hopefully fill in the pothole…

Now read this – How to make a claim for pothole harm

How to report a pothole