Thanks for the FixMyStreet website details, I've just uploaded details of potholes near to me, just need to wait and see how long before KCC actions the repairs.

as a motorcyclist I know just how hazardous potholes can be. Riding in the dark or, as in this example, unsighted by glare, you sometimes just cant see them until it's too late. Hitting one at 30 will very likely have you off the bike, and then it's with the gods as to whether anything then ploughs over you. Hitting one at higher speeds and the risks of death or serious injury really increase.

I would encourage anyone who sees a dangerous pothole to always report it. Never asume someone else has or will, really someone's life could depend on it.

Around this part of Kent it is not only the potholes that are causing problems. The roadside egdes are becoming broken, loose and rutted too. This is caused by people effectivey 'widening' the road by using the verge to avoid potholes in the general surface. The result is that if you were to drive into these ruts at speed, probably in darkness, they could easily rip the tyre off and destroy the suspension. I have nearly been forced into the ruts to avoid large HGV's and even at low speed they are very dangerous, could destabilise a car and cause a crash. As you say, it will take a fatality to get action taken. What a pity when motorist contribute so much to the Treasury.

Cheers Concrete

Reported 6 months ago,

got email from ECC to say fixed... Only 6 months...