Porsche driver killed by pothole. What is WRONG with THE ROADS in the UK…?!

What is wrong with the roads in the UK? Porsche driver killed by pothole
Firstly, sincere condolences to the family of the gentleman who has lost his life. In this video we’re trying to delicately look at this news story from Sussex, and asking why certain things have been included in the article. Is the article subtly trying to shift blame onto the driver? What is going on with UK roads…?
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#news #porsche #crash #roads #uk #sussex

[@johnwootton4469]

What is wrong is that they take loads of money off of the motorist, money that should really be spent on keeping the roads maintained, and they just spaff it up the wall on loads of stuff that most people neither want nor would have ever voted for.

[@glennjenkinson1103]

Look on the net and see where road tax is spent, I looked last week, it will totally surprise you

[@johnwootton4469]

@@glennjenkinson1103 Yeah, only a quarter of collected road tax gets spent on the roads; in other words, road tax is just another tax for the government to splurge aimlessly on vanity projects. What are they going to do without us cash cow motorists if they get the future that they seem to be aiming towards? They're going to have to find a lot of money from elsewhere..

[@trisrush9155]

Plenty of money for support of….. ukr…..

[@RichWithTech]

could also replace what you just said with any tax in the UK, crazy place

[@barriewilliams4526]

@@johnwootton4469 Yes, the way that they get away with it is. It is no longer "road tax" it is now excise duty, and now the money goes into the melting pot...

[@clungepoker6749]

If it is a legal requirement for cars to be roadworthy... why is it not a legal requirement for roads to be carworthy?

[@ry491]

Good point !

[@AdamBrowne-eg1eb]

Very good point.

[@davidvanderklauw]

Would you vote for a candidate with that policy?

[@Logical_spock]

Here here

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

I’d be careful about making that a law. Councils wouldn’t repair more roads, they’d close them.

[@censorshipBS]

74 years old driving a GT2 what a Legend ❤

[@rdallas81]

Probably his viagra.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

My old dad is 85 and he's just sold his hemi engined SRT Jeep... Ironically he recently got his first speeding ticket in a borrowed, (while he awaits his next monster), small family electric car... 😂

[@N1XHL]

@@neddyseagoon9601trackhawk?

[@neddyseagoon9601]

@@N1XHL Cherokee... About 5 seconds 0 to 60... A drag racer did it in 4 seconds if memory serves...

[@N1XHL]

@@neddyseagoon9601 fuckin NIIIICCCEEE

[@timothyabraham13]

"what's wrong with the roads in the UK" exactly what's wrong with everything else in the UK.

[@_lmagine]

Why plough money into a lost cause?

[@davidyoung9561]

This country has had it.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

Criminal leadership same as the rest of the commonwealth. Sovereignty has been sold to the unelected NGO. WEF UN and other that tell your government where your tax money is to be spent and it's not on you. It's to their pockets. How much has your gov given the WEF this year alone? Billions if it's the same as Canada. How much for Pakistani gender studies? Millions going by what Canada spent. Half of which is kicked back to the criminal politicians. Trudeau foundation money laundering in Ottawa so obvious it can be seen from London and B.C.. Some how the media just can't seem to see it. Every department is head by a minister with a corporation that informs on how to get government contracts in the department they run. Obvious kickbacks. Criminal but the media just can't see it. They brag about the crime and fraud in their linked in and facebook profiles but the media just are unable to find it. They have websites spelling it all out, how the crime works but the media is unable to find it. Seriously look up your MP's they are all doing it and bragging about it. That's why your roads are shit same as the rest of the commonwealth.

[@stephenbirchall941]

The reality Government figures show the UK economy has lost over 4pc permanently after Brexit. With all those billions, we could have put money into infrastructure.

[@mauriceadamson224]

There taking pot hole money to put in more speed ramps to f-ck our vehicles up along with give way islands.all designed to piss the motorists off.cunts.

[@DavidBridgeTechnology]

My brother was killed on the A685 due to a pot hole. Same story in the local press. He was riding a powerfulnike. The council quickly resurfaced the road on the next morning (not scheduled work) but a police man visited just before and stated that the road was in horrendous condition and he had trouble controlling his policebike on it and wouldn't ride on it again. It was a 60mph limit road and police think my brother was doing about 40. His widow was not compensated.

[@emzzyjane25]

Should sue them! So sorry for your loss

[@tpbcpeople]

My sincere condolences for your loss. I too, have ridden on the A685 from Kendal to Tebay, and I encountered a pothole at the top end of the speed limit of the road! Fortunately, I have obviously survived! But the damage was over £3000 and I'm still fighting the council from April 2023. I have thought about jacking in riding, there's no fun having one foot in the grave!

[@Christopher_S]

I'm so sorry to hear this :( I hope that you and your family are as okay as can be.

[@ziefik]

It's disgusting and shameful behaviour from the council to try and quickly patch up the road. Ridiculous but sadly not surprising. I always loved the idea of riding a bike, but the state of roads in this country has put me right off.

[@coconuciferanuts339]

Seems to me that our authorities use the "ROAD" to kill .

[@mikethrower742]

I live down the road from where this happened and I’m so sorry for the victims family……RIP. but this pothole has been there for months not weeks but months and it is very deep and by the manhole . So, if this guy saw it at the last moment , his reaction would be to swerve to avoid wheel and tyre damage….this clearly set off a catastrophic accident. The truly shocking thing is that now all the potholes on that stretch of road have been filled in !! It has taken the death of someone to get them off their arses ! There should be criminal liability for these things and people should face a prison sentence. I’m also a motorcyclist and these potholes could have easily caused the death of a biker……don’t ride around here in the wet when these holes are hidden by the water. Locals know where they are but totally frustrated that it takes the death 0f a motorist to get them filled in…….

[@Vintageme1966]

Mike, I totally agree with you. I drive that road on a regular basis and yes the potholes have been there for many months, I was actually on it a couple months ago when a motorbike had to swerve one of them or the rider would have come off. There's a humongous crater of a pothole in the middle of the road as you enter Northchapel ( the next village going north from Petworth), there were traffic lights and men filling another hole in, in the same area a few weeks back but for some stupid reason they didn't fill the big crater in. I hate to say this but that will cause a big accident soon.

[@BauregardSenior87]

18 billion? how much is our governments spending on green policy and foreign wars that we never asked for, never voted for, rejected and got anyway?

[@PamelaD963]

About 1 billion a day, borrowed and then given away to other countries .

[@myeye.6462]

What have our roads and politicians got in common? Their both 💩.

[@johnfletcher4017]

​@@PamelaD963not to other countries private corporations every one of them associated with the world economic forum it's a big circle jerk

[@johnfletcher4017]

​@@PamelaD963and they want trillions as well as 15% of net GDP of every world economic forum state/country net zero/bankrupt country starvation and destitution

[@thistimeimhere]

The had an endless money tree under lockdowns. The government have never had a funding problem. They have always and still do have a spending problem. Got to the stage they literally aren't even given us basic services while taxing us 70p on every pound by the time it does the rounds.

[@richlc]

Councils are neglecting the roads and wasting the money on “Green Incentives” to fund alternative transport.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

"We can't fix dangerous roads, or there'll be no money left for us to decolonize the Meals-on-Wheels service" 🙄

[@donavonlarney]

& when they do "fix" it the tar they use is rubbish.... when pot holes form the entire road surface is already compromised.

[@ogribiker8535]

Typical brain dead comment from a typical brain dead Daily Fail reader 🤦

[@AlexandraK1]

Horse and wagon?

[@EdVanMeyer]

Hereford Council have 3 Zipper EV Buses. They weigh about twice what a 1960's Routemaster Double Decker does. And these Zippers are Free buses.

[@lordcharfield4529]

I helped at an accident in Golden Valley (just outside of Ripley) Derbyshire 3 weeks ago. Newlands Road has a rough surface surface with potholes on a tight bend and a motorcyclist was thrown into the path of an oncoming car. He was seriously injured and unconscious. I gave him a jaw thrust and kept him breathing until the ambulance arrived. Now, I sadly can’t find out what happened to him. Derbyshire County Council are to blame though because of poor prioritisation, and the government is equally complicit for sending our tax money abroad to fight “forever wars” instead of seeking peace and using our resources to maintain safety within our infrastructure!

[@SmokeySean33]

Good & fair journalism left the UK a long time, luckily there is a rise in alternative platforms like yourself who deliver a more unbiased version of events. God bless you Geoff

[@keithposter5543]

And incorrect versions of events as it turns out.

[@jamesdean1143]

Probably the worst roads in Europe. I was on the M6 last week, north of Manchester, and even the motorways have potholes in them now. Let’s face it, our roads are so far gone now that they are never coming back. Absolutely disgusting, incompetent and corrupt politicians in the UK.

[@wearetheremnants1615]

That's the plan I think

[@stephenwilliams6103]

I was driving along the A14 earlier on today, The east bound carriageway @ near to Spaldwick, doesn't have pot holes🤔, there is no top layer of tarmac atall on the over taking lane. Cars & vans have to swerve towards the centre reservation to avoid the missing road / tarmac. This is going to cause a fatality one day very soon😢😢😳🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@davidvanderklauw]

Have you ever considered voting them out?

[@stephenwilliams6103]

@@davidvanderklauw Voting doesn't work😡, if it did🤔, they would abolish it☹️. The way to go 🤔, is like our wounderfull nabours 🤔, The French Public🇨🇵🇨🇵, they sort it out good & proper 😁🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@djtaylorutube]

About on a par with some of the Italian roads we're currently "enjoying". Although to be fair, the Italian ones are a bit better. French roads, brilliant, Swiss, great too.

[@andrewstafford-jones4291]

Media "spin" to deflect liability away from the council. If the BBC had reported this they would not have mentioned the pothole at all and would have sugested that the driver was too old, the car to powerful for UK roads, the wrong colour, left hand drive and the wrong tyres.

[@AlanRoberts-xy4wu]

Correct

[@HomesickforAlaska]

You forgot that it was also an ICE vehicle. BBC headline would have led with that.

[@thesmallerhalf1968]

The only problem with your assertions is that the BBC have reported on it and avoided any and all speculation at this point. And rightly so. The pothole allegations are nothing more than that at this point. Whether the deceased swerved to avoid a pot hole is speculation. Traducing the BBC is unfounded and conflating this crash into the state of roads (poor) is unhelpful.

[@12235117657598502586]

🎯

[@memorialgardens1664]

🧠🤝 yup 🤮

[@ciaranburke3243]

Your government has no problem putting that sort of money towards war and illegal immigration same here in Ireland the roads are in shite 😒

[@shuddafukkup]

Same everywhere these days I’m afraid 😤 Got to spend billions on illegal immigrants and forget wars but can’t afford to look after your own people

[@drstrangelove4998]

Fair comment!

[@RobertDonnyJr-c4e]

The roads in Ireland (especially Dublin ) are a joke . By design which is the annoying part. Pointless one ways , bicycle lanes and bus lanes the size of motorways with a tiny little car lane restricting traffic for no reason whatsoever. I’m so f””king sick of it

[@bastogne315]

Roads in Ireland are brilliant mate. 😂

[@realMaverickBuckley]

Bingo. They'll give ILLEGAL Immigrants £180 a week and food&board, but they won't fix our f***** roads being damaged by the strain of EVs (being 56% heavier than their ice counterparts) and lack of maintenance.

[@TimK2646]

This is so sad. My deepest condolences to the family. Shame UK Government

[@davideyres955]

Had multiple cars damaged by road defects. Two broken dampers, broken springs etc. Not been able to claim off the council each time despite the roads being defective. Is cost me over the thousand pounds to fix so far. Bloody criminal.

[@paulchinnery6560]

The reason it's going to cost 16B£ to repair the roads is the scandalous neglect over the past twenty years whilst the motorist has been bled dry in taxation. As a Porsche driver every body presume you travel everywhere at Mach two.

[@d.y.8276]

People with expensive cars drive the slowest on bad roads.

[@TheRealWindlePoons]

@@d.y.8276 Yep. Just ask Rod Stewart. He had to repair his own road as it was undrivable with his Ferrari.

[@evertdevries8814]

and the car was white, had a p;enis so was therefore all kinds of wrong

[@davidclemens1578]

Have you ever looked at the clearance under a porsche? He could have hit that at 15 mi an hour and it likely would have caused severe damage. So in this case it doesn't matter how fast he was going because if he had to swerve to miss it obviously he was going into the oncoming traffic. There is no excuse for road conditions like that. It is purely the fault of the government's misdirection of funds.

[@Thunderbloke2]

Did he swerve or did he hit something that made him lose control? On a narrow road like that haven't we've all been in the situation when the risk of trying to avoid an obstacle is higher than the risk of hitting it.

[@MattyEngland]

The money to fix potholes is being spent housing boat anchors

[@28russ]

W⚓'s?

[@markmitchell2282]

It’s been spent on wars and money, laundered actually

[@sleepysamk1400]

More like WAR !!!!!

[@cunnie84]

I hate the fact that the prime minister is paid £16,000 a month that's 2k more than I earn in a year

[@computerbob06]

​@@cunnie84Get a better job then!

[@ketchmarkreviews7275]

The Government is to blame. Someone has made a decision to downgrade road repairs. This decision is killing people.

[@TheRealWindlePoons]

The government is entirely to blame. Westminster government has cut central funding to local councils so much that they are going broke - and not just one or two profligate ones either. Broke councils will not prioritise road repairs even if lives may be at stake.

[@cropduster8798]

Your last sentence is the reason for the downgrade.

[@knockschool]

Yep our goverment is more interested in killing people in the Ukraine and middle east. ?

[@JasonSmith-tv2zw]

The UN decided when they wrote Agenda 21/30

[@joshbamber]

No, we are to blame for putting responsibility in strangers. This applies to all aspects of life.

[@MrFrog_]

'A 74-year-old Porsche driver involved in a fatal crash believed to be caused by potholes died from a medical episode at the wheel, police have said. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene after his left-hand-drive Porsche 911 GT2 hit a BMW near the Sussex village of Petworth on April 29'

[@itsmrlonewolf]

The Isle of Man has bad weather too, I’ve seen potholes appear overnight, I also saw those same potholes being fixed in the afternoon, literally hours after they appeared.

[@criscross572]

Our car tax money has more chance of Ending up in some politicians pocket than repairing roads.

[@andygozzo72]

of course, them and their mega rich banker mates/masters pockets.....

[@thisisadebrown]

I know, that’s because council taxes to repair the roads

[@simoningate2056]

Road duty is a tax on cars - doesn't mean the government use that money to maintain the roads.

[@fredfred2363]

If the pothole hadn't been there, would there have been an accident?

[@mrwhite292]

No

[@AlanRoberts-xy4wu]

Exactly 👍

[@ciaranburke3243]

Course not 😒

[@truxton1000]

There will ALWAYS be potholes regardless how good maintenance is, the problem is two-fold. One is the problem with the lack of road maintenance, the other is if a driver is that incompetent he should not be a driver. Period.

[@theant9821]

​@@truxton1000thats 99 percent of road users off the roads then. Most of them have no skill whatsoever, skill isn't required to pass the test.

[@barriewilliams4526]

The reasons given for most controls put on motorists is "safety" As a cyclist, motorcyclist, and car driver for the last 69 years (I'm 87 now) I have never, ever seen the roads in such a dangerous state! There is no point the powers that be pushing the "it's for your own safety" and at the same time allow the roads to deteriorate to such a dangerous level. As a "duty of care" all councils are responsible for keeping the roads is a safe condition. So, why is legal action not being taken against said councils for endangering the public?

[@fenrir7969]

The issue is that the council can be sued, just like a business but the cost is ultimately footed by taxpayers. Nobody is ever held personally liable for anything they do (or don't do, as in the case of road repairs).

[@barriewilliams4526]

@@fenrir7969 The cost of getting your vehicle repaired, or burying a loved one falls on the taxpayer too....

[@dungareesareforfools]

They blatantly lie about the maintenance of roads too. I once claimed for damage to a wheel, rather than admit the problem and pay up, they sent a wad of evidence that the road had recently passed its 6-monthly inspection. It clearly hadn't been inspected properly, as a look at Street view confirmed. They subsequently paid up.

[@Angloman516]

Driver's now spend more time surveying the road surface immediately ahead of them, rather than the road ahead. Inevitably drivers try to avoid them by sudden swerves which can be time inappropriate. In the past few years I've replace 5 of my tyres owing to potholes, now I buy the cheapest tyres as those tyres I replaced were no more than 25% worn, they never get to be worn out.

[@lotty13]

Thank you for making this video. This should be discussed. RIP to the gentleman involved.

[@angelaway9960]

The dreadful state of our roads is simply a reflection of the way the country is run in general.

[@bustjanzupan1074]

Amen, Exactly, and it is the same here in the southern Eu tooo.

[@TheMacMaster]

Well said Geoff. Very respectfully put across. 👍🏼

[@timhicks2154]

How awful. The Council need to be sued. I’ve had to do some serious pothole-dodging on my motorcycle. They can’t find any spare tarmac to fill the potholes as they are using it all to make speed-humps.

[@Stuart-qj1ld]

Yea speed humps that damage the ev batteries 😂

[@BleachDemon99]

Me too, I nearly got bucked off…50% pothole 50% inexperience 🫣

[@fredfred2363]

You CAN sue your local council if they already know about the pothole and have it listed for repair. It is negligent of them to leave a serious road hazard that they are aware of without coning it off or closing the road. Our local council has a web page pot hole reporting thing... I sued and won for two wheels and tyres. They tried to fob me off, but once they were served with a county court summons, they wrote me a cheque.

[@MTBLaura]

@@fredfred2363 In theory you can... you need a lot of tenacity, time, patience and perseverance to even get acknowledged. I suspect many victims don't get far.

[@alastairharris1866]

the point of the investigation is to work out who foots the bill! In all likelihood it will be all of us, as the government is not insured and the likelihood is it was caused by the pothole!

[@jordie-fly439]

VED has generated over £5 billion, every year, since 2006, and last year it was £7.75 billion. The last 10 years is a total of £72.79 billion. On top of that fuel duty, for vehicles only, has raised over £25 billion EVERY year, or £316 billion in the last 10 years, and there's VAT on top of that. And VAT on top of everything else we buy to keep our vehicles on the road. The state of the roads is shocking taking those numbers into account.

[@stykytte]

My little brother was thrown from his motorbike and into a lamp post at 50mph on the Uxbridge road in west London because of a pothole years ago. He nearly lost his legs, he's shorter now than he was and can walk alright with a bit of a uneven walk. The pot hole is still there almost a decade later.

[@angelmessenger8240]

They're not going to repair the roads when they want us out of cars. Any expense for repairs falls on the owner of the vehicle and profits the car industry.

[@SenszR]

You can claim for the damage from the council but it’s frustrating nonetheless

[@Strider9655]

They don't want us out of our cars, this narrative is spun to make us mad and stubborn about holding onto our cars, the govt make £12-14bn per year in VAT alone on new car sales, then you've got motoring taxes, fuel, tax on your insurance, VED. They don't want us out of our cars, if anything they want us to keep buying cars more often.

[@TheRealWindlePoons]

@@SenszR Not entirely true. You can only claim from the council if the damage has not previously been reported. If the council is aware but not got around to fixing it then they refuse to pay out. A number of motorists in Nottinghamshire have fallen foul of this bizarre state of affairs and consequently had to rely on their own insurance.

[@lucidity7983]

@@TheRealWindlePoons True, here if the council have sprayed a circle round it you can't claim.

[@SenszR]

@@TheRealWindlePoons that's a p take. Is there anywhere you could direct me to read into this?

[@Horus9339]

That is no pothole, that is a repair that has not been finished. They have cut around the manhole and left it, it looks like it has been left in that condition for a long time. Needless death caused by poor road conditions, my heart goes out to the family and friends.

[@flatlyna2223]

We have huge numbers of manhole, drain covers etc in Buckinghamshire where the tarmac has been cut back 6 inches or so from the metal edge. I don't understand why they have been left like that, as for any other break in the surface, when the elements get in the road just disintegrates.

[@Horus9339]

@@flatlyna2223 Damaged caused by this lack of repair makes the council liable for any damage caused by the road surface, or lack there of. No work should ever be started without the materials to finish the job, also known bad surface roads should have signage and highly visible paint sprayed around the concerning road degradation. Simple fixes for little outlay can help reduce serious damage to vehicles and injury/death of road users. It really is unforgivable.

[@Barth78]

Rip to the driver and rip British roads

[@orchidhouse297]

I was in the Dolomites a few years back. It was winter with deep snow drifts, but there was a lorry cruising mountain roads with some sort of system that when it stopped over a pothole or a crack in the road surface, it poured some sort of black tar(?), waited a few minutes and the moved on to the next bit that needed repair. I never saw the whole process - just admired how efficient it was.

[@therealdojj]

The mental gymnastics required to make the leap to join track days to potholes must be monumental 🤦

[@BasketCase]

The "pothole / raised iron works" in the article are criminal.

[@martynsmith3317]

£34.4 million spent in Wales implementing the unwanted 20 mph default speed limit how many potholes would that have repaired?

[@garethwilliams976]

Not sure if you live in Wales but the roads there are much better in this respect than England.

[@merlin5476]

I'd assume the way the councils waste money inc backhanders that money would repair about 5 potholes.

[@Robotnik]

Roads are rubbish UK over by design

[@TomHappyapril]

@@garethwilliams976no they are not.

[@anonnona8099]

@martynsmith3317 > £34.4 million spent in Wales implementing the > unwanted 20 mph default speed limit Unwanted by selfish snowflakes, welcomed by the sensible.

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

I was thrown off my bike doing 15mph ALONG A LAYBY when my front wheel dumped down a pothole. I have photographic evidence of the pothole and of the damage to my bike. Not to mention a broken rib. I am LUCKY to be alive.

[@lucidity7983]

You are. My sons Father died after a getting thrown from his bicycle due to a pothole in Cirencester. He suffered a bleed on the brain and that was that.

[@itchyballsack6627]

Submit your evidence to your local council...

[@peterhouldin6447]

This happened to me back in 1989 in Hampshire. The road had been repaired more than 6 times and yet the problem was still there. As a motorcyclist this was lethal as it was on a bend and it through me into a load of trees. I lost an inch and a quarter of my left leg and my foot fused. I wasn't speeding as probably most people would think and it was proved by the police than I was well under the speed limit. I sued Hampshire county in 1994 and as it was the first case to be brought to a high court and win, I was in a lot of bike magazines at that time. I visited my friends last year and was curious to see if the road had been repaired, it wasn't and the same pothole was still there after 35 years. They really don't care for us motorists, just like our money.

[@WelcomeToTheWorldOfTheReal]

RIP the driver. Being the age I am, I can tell you from experience in the 70's that, if you want to know the state of the economy, judge it by the number of potholes in the road. Also, there are three further problems with the way the government treats our roads, 1) they always have money to spend on the latest speed camera, no matter what the state of the roads, 2) during the 90's they spent a huge amount of money putting humps in to slow people down, make them use more petrol, and actually damage the road after a while of having been there, and 3) when fixing roads, the government puts out a tender for the repair then, they look at all the quotes that come in and just pick the cheapest one. I know, from speaking to people that lay roads and road repairs, they say that the cheapest quote will be using the cheapest materials so, the fix they do doesn't last long at all. Everything the government does just seems to be counter productive when you look close enough at what they do with everything.

[@QuotidianStupidity]

That is the irony of modern democracy. No government can risk doing what needs doing as it will be unpopular. For instance, running a deficit, no gov can really change that as it will cause cuts to schools, policing, armed forces etc

[@davecozzie1]

​@QuotidianStupidity the government is bankrupt. It is in debt millions of pounds. In debt to who?

[@PSOL]

It’s almost like they’re being incredibly short sighted with costs, crap materials etc. because they only care about the condition of things in the current election year 🙃 Who cares if the roads fall apart again once labour are in?

[@andy530i]

The council should be charged with corporate manslaughter.

[@garethwilliams976]

It has yet to be shown that a pothole was in any way involved.

[@jamesparry1547]

​@@garethwilliams976 Commonsense will tell you that every driver is now swerving on the road because of potholes, you can no longer drive in the UK without without looking like a pissed up crazy. FACT 😮

[@simoningate2056]

Maybe if central government didn't cut the money that went to local councils - they would have the money to fix the roads. I live in Tory territory and the roads here are absolute shit - blame the government - and then get rid of them.

[@jamesparry1547]

@@simoningate2056 they had the money, but spent it on net stupid so they can keep track on people. 15 min city's is their end game

[@trisrush9155]

Simple answer. They are not maintained. We don’t drive on the left, we drive on what’s left……. Enough said….

[@TheRealWindlePoons]

Balloon Wood crossroads on the A609 between Nottingham and Ilkeston is now so bad that you can forget lane discipline. Cars veer at you from all directions just to avoid the big, deep potholes. Anything less than a 4x4 has to crawl through at 10-15mph.

[@paulahickman7924]

Canada is the same

[@keithposter5543]

The deceased Porsche driver had a medical event, it wasn't a pot hole. Look it up in the Argus.

[@FR42.P]

I used to drive a tipper delivering tarmac. It's crazy cos the cheap stuff with 20mm stones would go to the low income areas but the expensive stuff with 6mm stones would go to areas where the income was higher. What that means is the council who ordered the tarmac would use the cheap stuff in places like Watford and expensive stuff in places like Hampstead or golders green in London

[@pmarmify]

Police should arrest head of council & head of highways for allowing pothole!

[@dougsaunders8109]

Council or utility company? Many of the latter have the right to dig up when they want and re-instate poorly

[@deargdoom8743]

Don't be silly, mate.

[@simoningate2056]

If the council doesn't have the money because the government has cut their budgets - how is it the councillors fault? Maybe it is the Ministry of Transport or the Chancellor of the Exchequer or possibly fishy Rishi.

[@jontheodore8450]

This is all down to all local council’s getting rid of their own road repair crews in the 90s. It was said at the time in 20 years our roads would be all falling apart, they were right…

[@fenrir7969]

It seems a lot of bad decisions were made by the government in the 90's.

[@stewartellinson8846]

council budgets have been cut by 50% since 2010. this is austerity; this is what people voted for. deaths.

[@dockerandy]

Highways are reponsible for all main roads, local councils are still responsible for local roads and adopted local roads

[@BilldeSarse]

@@stewartellinson8846 Yet councils still manage to find money for such "worthy" causes as BLM, climate change and numerous well-paid non-jobs such as "Consultancy Support for a Strategic Reset." Funny, that.

[@matthewbooth9265]

@@stewartellinson8846 nobody voted for it, we the voters do not get to make such decisions....still hasn't put councils off paying bloated saleries to the high paid people, plus massive pensions etc...oh and lets not forget the diversity officers, the rainbow crossings and all the other wasteful crap...

[@fredfred2363]

Huge respect and RIP. He almost certainly passed away doing what he loved; Driving his beloved car.

[@paulnightfall2574]

Exactly what is wrong with the UK government!!!

[@TomB1988]

We don't pay ROAD TAX we pay EMISSIONS TAX. The councils and government are a disgrace.

[@steviemac8075]

We have unquestioned standards to meet in order to be on the roads as a car driver. Meanwhile the government do not have a minimum standard to meet regarding the condition of the roads we drive on.

[@hughjasse3375]

The UK government currently spends £5Bn a year on dinghy hotels, pizzas and netflix, and gives a similar amount to Cerco to house such people in private or social housing rentals. That money could therefore be used alternatively to fix the decades of accumulated road repairs in around 18 months.

[@wearetheremnants1615]

Yea they all have to go back

[@stewartellinson8846]

No it doesn't. council budgets have been cut by 50% since 2010. this is austerity; this is what people voted for. deaths.

[@hughjasse3375]

@@stewartellinson8846 Go and read the parliamentary report from 11th March 2024. It's astounding that someone could be so unaware of the current situation, despite the home office and parliament posting the figures into public. It's only native people who have had their services cut. Like road repairs. If you float over on a dinghy, everything is free, including accommodation that most would have to save up for all year, as a holiday treat, for just a week or two in the year. Or you jump to the front of the social housing queue, that again you pay for, but will never have access. In fact, councils are building new social housing for them, as we speak, that you specifically will.never have access to. And you get to pay for it, with no choice over how the money could be spent, like repairing the crumbling roads.

[@BernardSamson-hf6fc]

We (UK) gave Ukraine £40B without asking the public, yet baulk at spending less than half that on our National roads. Our drivers are worth more than a proxy war, fought under instruction of WEF & NATO.

[@fenrir7969]

Things will only get worse as long as people continue voting for the same old LibLabCon uniparty. We need more independent MP's who might actually give a damn about their local area.

[@AndersHellquist]

​@@fenrir7969The politics is just a theater. There is no way to fix this through voting. Mark my words

[@johnwood5473]

Because they can launder money so much easier by pretending to give it to the Ukraine.

[@peterfox3989]

A proxy war is a bargain as opposed to a boots on the ground war , don't be a Ostrich .

[@mikemoore5929]

Not sure why Geoff didn't give you a heart mate , you are fucking spot on . I hope doesn't believe the US bullshit about caring for the Ukrainian people . Come on Geoff don't be scared , unless you believe ukraine should get priority over the UK citizens ......

[@TheSuperduke516]

Never let a tragedy go to waste, SORT THE FKIN ROADS OUT, WE HAVE PAID FOR THEM!

[@Clarencebeeks89]

This government does not care unfortunately….the roads are certainly at there worse

[@StellaAsh]

The pot holes we put up with in this country would not be tolerated in Europe -

[@adiadi5832]

20 years back when i move to uk from a poor country in eastern europe ,i envy you for the nice motorways u had...sadly right now uk look like my country in the 90` s,no offence

[@itisabird]

When I drove for my first time to UK 12 years ago from Spain, I was in a cultural shock for how different things were. 10 miles after, the real shock came as my car passed over the biggest pothole I had seen in my life. Unfortunately, it wasn't the worst one I saw in my five years in the UK. I've driven through many European countries and even one South-American one, and none of them has their roads as bad as the ones of UK. It is really sad, you have a really lovely country that is falling in pieces.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

Try driving in Belgium or Rome. The roads there are shocking.

[@norman7527]

The country is pot/shit hole

[@tenparkdrive]

Cheap lazy reporting is why.

[@supersaabclaire]

That article is trying to blame the driver so that the council isn't to blame 😏

[@bexhill8777]

sounds like media turned it into anti-speeding/anti-age/anti-car

[@zxrcol]

The roads in mid Devon are covered in potholes and now they are covered in mud from the farmers. I’m surprised more motorcyclists haven’t been affected.

[@robindowse4473]

Those responsible for our roads are criminally incompetent and should start facing criminal convictions.

[@Vaniter]

As a fellow car enthusiast and resident of Petworth where the crash occurred, it was quite unsurprising to learn that a pothole was the cause of this devastating accident. Sadly, they are in abundance here and sussex in general, with it taking months and sometimes YEARS for them to be fixed. Truly sad what happened to the gentleman in his GT2, let's hope this is the final time an error like this claims the life of an innocent road user

[@kristoph7606]

The roads are absolutely dangerous around Sussex I use the A2028 through tunners Hill to Ardingly, I honestly can't believe how bad it is, The drains have fallen 6 inches into the road, the camber is ridicules, and the pot holes around the dukes head roundabout is nothing less than a crater, Our money is being used to fund wars and settle immigrants while the nationals are left to suffer, The councils are nearly bankrupt, and the politician's are only out for themselves, This country is becoming a third world country really fast.

[@SteveHutton]

The 'crater' on the Dukes Head roundabout must have been there for over a year now and the council show no signs of attempting any repairs. They do however seem to like closing every other road for 'repairs' that seem to take ages but really seem more designed to make motorists lives more difficult.

[@chasevans7171]

R.I.P. porsche guy. Me and some mates ordered a taxi from the village local into the nearby town a while ago. Taxi driver remarked as he swerved the trenches, "these roads are worse than my country"..... When we asked where that was, he replied "Bangladesh".

[@davidyoung9561]

The problem with this country is the money is going in the wrong places such as paying for immigrants.

[@stevenwilson5737]

That’s why the government have renamed it car tax Bro.

[@ouroborosirvington]

If the road had been designated as 20mph this poor life could have been saved. Please remember 20's plenty.

[@bobcat70r96]

But it wasn’t a 20mph road……and there’s no apparent evidence of any excessive speed contributing to this accident 🤷🏼‍♂️🙄

[@leedstown]

The roads are collapsing, where is the money going? £7 million a day going on keeping immigrants

[@johnmoncrieff3034]

It is now closer to 10 million a day when the Rwanda costs are taken account of! Even more when the French bribes are taken into consideration. (£500+ million).

[@AlexLR]

Those in power, the same people who own the media, want you to blame it on immigrants. The truth is there's not enough money for us plebs because they are taking it all for themselves and their mates. Look how everything that was owned publicly, ie. it belonged to all of us, has been sold off cheap and now it costs more for a worse service. Royal Mail, waste management, healthcare, etc etc. £7m a day to help very vulnerable people is pennies for us. Get angry at the good old chaps stealing quite literally billions!

[@squibys2262]

Put them to work fixing the roads? I bet they are more skilled than the native bodgers.

[@Paragon62]

@@squibys2262why bother making that comment it will never be implemented, we need positive antigovernment action.

[@Paragon62]

Why couldn’t u put a picture of the pothole up.

[@joannedoyle-bu3mu]

Your spot on Geoff, that article was disgusting obviously leading the blame to the driver. This is the angle they take with every thing, we are all to blame for everything, How dare they! Their time is over.

[@CyberCurtainTwitcher]

It was exactly the same when my 21 year old nephew was killed in a motorbike accident. The MSM seem to enjoy twisting the facts.

[@stevenwithanS]

England isn't governed by English people anymore. That's the main problem. Same thing happening in Canada now.

[@phillydelphia8760]

It is, they're just doing a terrible job of it and lining their pockets.

[@immytweed4607]

😂😂😂😂😂. Totally false. The government is 99% white and born in uk. You want to blame the blacks for all your problems. Deep down your racist and salty

[@holymoly40]

Stop blaming the Scott's

[@guessundheit6494]

As always, ignorant whites blame the non-white immigrants instead of the billionaires. That ignorance is how the wealthy get away with it.

[@jaggafeen]

racist alert

[@NickAskew]

Everyone knows that the UK has terrible roads. We all know that if you visit the UK you can expect to hit potholes on virtually every road. I feel so sorry for this man and his friends and family. When will the UK government take responsibility?

[@MrSkeptik-z5r]

Councils spending on vanity projects, the roads have been going to shite for years. Councils now are a waste of space.

[@Nicolas-qb3yg]

The council is responsible for this murder. The responsible should go to jail

[@cainweibel8265]

How many more like this before they realise its not just a danger to a car but a danger to lives. Utterly crazy

[@CSaville]

This is terrible. I've seen people weaving around on roads trying to avoid potholes. I do it myself. Some are absolutely horrendous now in the UK. My son picked up his brand new car and within 120 miles hit a pothole on a 30mph road. Believe me he is the safest driver. Tyre destroyed. God help you if you ride a motorbike . When he got it fixed the tyre company said that they are getting loads of these. Lancashire is horrific whilst LCC, Lancashire County Council, have spent a fortune on a vanity project HQ. The roads have never been anywhere as bad as this in Lancashire. I have actually travelled to so called third world countries in the last few years. The roads are better, so much better, and I've felt much safer than I do in the UK. Not really Third world are they when their infrastructure is superior!

[@cherryseptember8697]

I agree with you re the roads in "Third World Countries"....not that I have driven on their roads but I have seen many films and been amazed to see how superior the roads are, not just in the cities, but in more rural areas too. The difference in the standard of the roads is so clear that yes, I could tell by just seeing the films. I honestly do feel that if those countries are "Third World" the UK must be Fourth or Fifth World.

[@ronspalding6946]

For goodness sake, the guy was 74 years old! not a boy racer. I have a friend who is just back from Poland and he said to me that their roads are in a 10 times better state than the roads in the UK.

[@fenrir7969]

Ukraine probably has better roads than us, what with all the billions we've sent to them!

[@TheSpoovy]

I've just got back from Java and it's honestly the same, within urban areas and main inter-urban areas the roads are better than in the UK.

[@iangannon8543]

Majority of damage to the roads is attributed to a few things: - heavy goods vehicles being driven on roads that were not built for them. - damaged drainage which isn’t fixed - poor implementation of road repairs I don’t blame the weather simply because the UK regs already take that into account when setting quality standards

[@jonmobbs-cd4od]

I think it's time we had the Romans back to repair our roads.....the state of Norfolk roads are a disgrace..

[@DwayneDibbley]

nothing to do with 3 tonnes bumper cars with shit tonnes of torque ripping up the roads while paying zero road tax

[@worldhello1234]

Strawmen anyone?

[@DwaynePipes]

​@@worldhello1234 Got to shovel that straw into every crevasse that you think exists!😂

[@dietznutz1]

Good point

[@N3onDr1v3]

​@@worldhello1234 uhh since the 70s or 80s cars have gotten way heavier and the increased damage to the roads is well documented

[@itisabird]

Roads in the UK have been in that state since before the EV craze. I stayed for five years in your country since 2012 and since the very beginning I saw the poor maintenance of the roads. I will never forget my first pothole in the M2 just after leaving Dover, it was nearly as deep as half of my wheel!

[@massimilianocacciamani7736]

Society's cracks are showing up in pot holes, green inhuman policies, and crimes against humanity that cannot be discussed. What can someone that cares about themseves and their friends do to put a stop to this insanity? This is not just happening in your country... If you can figure out how to fix things, please let me know.

[@davidonly]

It think..... pitchforks is all that's left (here) AR15s in the USA

[@therainbowgulag.]

Why repair roads when there won't be any cars?

[@truxton1000]

This! You will own nothing and be happy, ref WEF.... Say goodby to cash too, they will make it in practice impossible to own and drive a private car and they will have 100% control on all your life, fascist nightmare.

[@pedazodetorpedo]

It's a national speed limit road and nobody could expect or react in time to such a defect in the road. If it had been on the motorway no one would be saying the driver was going too fast

[@blimseynoeyes]

Respect for how you’ve put this story across mate, typical of the media to misdirect the reader

[@psnbunglemat]

Blame our corrupt greedy government the roads are a disgrace The country has been neglected and the people in it have been neglected

[@mv4ago]

The condition of the roads is deliberate, it's all part of the plan to stop private transport.

[@robinbennett3531]

yes potholes to keep everyone's speed down, this article a warning !

[@bastogne315]

Yes it's my idea ❤❤😂

[@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066]

And speeding

[@mickk8519]

My local council love paying out for alphabet people's rainbow crossings, and neglect pot holes.

[@charliepapa6848]

💯

[@neildutton8077]

That's not a pothole, it's a very poorly resurfaced road...sue the contractor or council.

[@nigelnightmare4160]

Even if it is a pothole the local council is liable once it has been reported.

[@kirilakmadjov8307]

Suing wont bring the man back to life.Roads need to be fixed, some potholes are too deep for cars, what about driving a motorbike.

[@augustinbelza2418]

About 4 years ago I came off my motorcycle after hitting a pothole. I was only doing about 30mph and was lucky enough not to go under a car coming in the opposite direction. Wrote the bike off and I had a bad road rash. The following week there was about 500m stretch of the road was repaired. When trying to claim for the damage I was informed that there was nothing to report now that the road was okay. 😢

[@fenrir7969]

The trick is to record everything (photo and video) on the day of the incident so they can't lie like that. Of course if you're rushed to hospital unconscious you'll have to hope that others get that evidence for you.

[@impy1980]

Northampton Council tried that with me after a big hole wrecked my car tyre, but someone else had also hit the hole a week after me who damaged both front tyres and suspension, so I argued contrary to their site statement that it was officially being fixed on x date (which somehow erases all previous incidents) I could prove, referencing their own guidelines for repair timelines for x size hole that it had not been done within their own guidelines and it was a failure of procedure and also negligence to safety, people had been reporting it since at least 6 months prior (Google Street View also proved it had been there long term|). Once I pushed back they passed me over to their insurance department, currently waiting to hear back from their insurance company for a pay out, expected by 29 May. It's unreal that if they repair it quickly after the fact of an incident, and in your case an accident you got lucky with, it makes every single incident void.

[@davidireland9074]

RIP to the driver, what a country we live in, how much has the accident cost emotionly and finanically opposed to filling a pothole which cost couple of hundred quit max.

[@samonodoubt]

Agree with you about the UK road. There are big potholes on motorways, secondary roads, in towns. It’s crazy. I’m telling you, I drive around 250 miles every day. And now there are also a lot of roadworks and road restrictions, but they don’t sort out the asphalt, but doing other works for ages…

[@robertdrinkall8947]

Surely that's a charge of Man Slaughter against whoever is in charge of road maintenance for that area.

[@fluffycotton4683]

Too much time spent watching farcical speed limits and avoiding endless pot holes - Driving in Wales is an absolute nightmare

[@timokuusela5794]

What I have found out here in Finland, with exactly the same increasing pothole problem, is that the asphalt is worse than it used to be: By trying to make more profit, the asphalt is recycled, and too little bitumen and oily substances are added, those increase the cost. Then the asphalt is more porous, water seeps in the uppermost layer, and if there is freezing temperature ,(or even without it), the forming ice breaks the structure allowing more water in, or just the water starts remove the oily substances. If there is a puddle over that , the hydrostatic shock of a truck or a car driving over that breaks the brittle area loose, and a vicious circle starts creating a sharp edged pothole. So, the reason is the sub standard "light coke" asphalt with too little binding and sealing bitumen. As can be seen, the patches containing enough bitumen will not deteriorate.

[@cherryseptember8697]

Thanks for that. Very interesting and the reduced standard of asphalt is definitely part of the problem with the roads here in Britain.

[@drd6416]

I noticed this too. They use minimal amount of tar itself and use fine low grade asphalt with no hardcore. Road is lumpy and uneven as well

[@Worther12]

I'm a car driver and motorcyclist. The roads that I drive on rubbish. The country is in recession (whether the govt admits it or not), why not invest £billions on road repairs? It would create loads of jobs, speed up business travel/deliveries. Those jobs pay tax, and spend money this helps to stimulate the economy. Transport is the life blood of the economy, but the govt would rather spend the money on foreign wars and illegal immigrants! I've also done track days and there's a general preconception that ppl that go on track days drive like idiots on the way home. I've never seen that.

[@dynevor6327]

"What is WRONG with THE ROADS in the UK…?!" Same same as everywhere else.

[@bgarston]

VED and fuel duty needs to be relinked to maintaining roads, simple. What is happening currently is that these funds are being misappropriated and used on other things.

[@chrisktm2010]

35 years ago I was involved in a motorbike accident due to bad pothole/road repair. Hospital for 14 months then 6 months rehabilitation to learn how to walk again. Within a few days after accident my parents took detailed photos of road condition in preparation to sue council. Luckily for me the local weekend paper published an article from the repair company apologising for how they let the road in a poor state. I didn’t even get to court as they settled very generously out of court.

[@squibys2262]

Was the money spent on immigrants and boat people to blame back then like people attribute nowadays? Wake up people, the problems the UK has is ingrained generational neglect.

[@cherryseptember8697]

Sorry to hear about your motorbike accident but very pleased to hear you were able to get an out of court settlement that was generous. Maybe they were more honest and responsible in those days? I can't see you getting it now.

[@tomc.2808]

I remember when Sleepy promised a Trillions for reconstruction of roads and bridges and instead we got a millions of illegals...

[@D.von.N]

You mean sleepy farty Don?

[@tonycalow708]

At least illegals work! I`ve worked alongside them and they work bloody hard, much harder than most Brits I`m ashamed to say!!

[@geoffdundee]

@@D.von.N ..........no i think he really means the one with dementia

[@m0rtifiedpenguin]

You mean the guy who can’t even speak coherently. The one who falls asleep in court. Yeah Sleepy don.

[@D.von.N]

@@geoffdundee i.e. Don, right? His forgetfulness about his encounters with Stormy Daniels... he keeps denying it. And he doesn't understand that the gag order is only for his attacks on witnesses and jury, not his free speech overall, how he whines every night.

[@stevenbarrett2787]

If someone dies as a result of the poor road condition, then the top person in charge of it should be charged with corporate man slater.

[@guysmith6039]

FFS. My car hit a pothole outside of Petworth the other week. The tyre was broken and I couldn’t swerve to avoid it. Im lucky that my run flat took the brunt of the impact. I reported this to WSCC. The council need to-be held accountable.

[@brillbilly]

Sad fact that it takes a death to get that pothole/crater now highlighted, yet watch how quick it's the only hole that gets fixed!..Then make out it's some type of petrol head accident?

[@simong7539]

Come on Geoff, you know we have to send a shit load of our taxes to Ukraine to be stolen before we fix anything here.

[@richbrock9876]

I’ve seen old boys in classic sports cars..they drive very carefully. Shame on them for trying to insinuate he was driving too fast or without due care. I feel so bad for his family, what a tragic loss

[@ElliottSix]

I simply googled "porsche gt2 crash" and all top posts is "council filled in potholes after crash". Shame on the council. I hope everyone goes after the council for negligence

[@bobcat70r96]

Hopefully they’ll be able to sue the people within the respective departments personally for neglecting their duties they’re supposedly been paid to do…….not simply take any compensation claim out of the council tax coffers as is usually the case.

[@solar_ignition]

As someone who takes 2 hour driving lessons and has to avoid potholes or be extra careful going over a worn out speed bump, I'm not surprised that potholes are bad enough that people are dying because of them

[@auntiejilly1954]

The photo of the man hole cover looks like, at some time, an area has been cut out around it and not made good. It is confusing calling it both a pot hole and raised iron work. Let's hope the investigation finds the cause for this poor mans family.