Car damaged after pothole incident (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

Car damaged after pothole incident

10:24am Monday 28th April 2008 in Columnists By Alex Lewis

A WOMAN whose car was badly damaged when it hit a pothole has warned the crumbling road could be lethal.

Julie Dunham's Saab suffered damage estimated at £1,000 when it hit a hole four feet long and seven inches deep in Lye Lane, Bricket Wood early on Thursday morning.

She said: "It was quite a shock - when I got home I found both my wheels and tyres were ruined.

"It has come at a bad time, and as I have to take three weeks off for an operation and I won't be paid.

"If somebody hits that pothole with the front wheel of a motorbike it will kill them.

"Roads should not be left in such a dangerous state."

She lives in Pondfield Crescent in St Albans, and works shifts in a care home in Bricket Wood.