Pothole problems persist despite Covid-19
Potholes remain a blight on UK roads, judging by the number of call outs by RAC patrols.
Even though traffic was down 60% in the second quarter of the year, the RAC still attended 1,766 pothole-related call outs from April to June.
RAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said: “On the surface, these statistics appear encouraging because they make it seem as though the quality of our roads hasn’t worsened, but when you consider how few vehicles were on the road, they are a real cause for concern.
“We would have hoped to have seen a far bigger drop in the share of pothole-related breakdowns than we would do normally at this time of year, but instead it was just the same as usual.”
The RAC’s Pothole Index suggests the overall standard of the roads improved very slightly in the second quarter of 2020 with the Index reducing from 1.65 to 1.59. This means drivers are now 1.5 times more likely to suffer a pothole breakdown than in 2006, when the RAC first started collecting data.
