Shock for mother and 10-month-old child as pothole bursts car tyre

Julie Kenwell • Published 9 Feb 2012 13:30 0 Comments

A MONEA man has hit out at Roads Service this week after his partner drove into a large pothole on the Leighan Road and burst a tyre.

Trevor Thornton says his partner and 10-month-old son had the shock of their lives when the car bumped off the pothole on the road between Derrygonnelly and Monea last Wednesday.

But he believes the worst is yet to come as he attempts to make a claim with Roads Service for the money he spent on replacing the tyre.

"My partner was coming from the shop up to the house on Wednesday when it happened," he told The Impartial Reporter, "She drove into the pothole and the tyre just burst. She got a bit of a shock all right. It beggars belief that in this day and age we have roads that are left to get into that state. I don't know how long it has been there but this is a big hole -- it didn't appear over night!

"It's catastrophic. With a 10-month-old child in the back of the car, what are you meant to do? She had to ring me to come up and help her.

"It's not even so much the tyre bursting in the first place, but it's all the fall out after it -- the hassle that I'll have to go through now more than anything else," he added, "Roads Service said they would send out a claims form but they never mentioned anything about fixing the pothole. Someone else could easily end up with the same problem as ourselves driving along that road."

A spokesperson for Roads Service said only one complaint had been received regarding this particular pothole which, they say, was repaired on Monday this week.

"When inspected it measured 1m x 0.3m x 95mm deep which required a response within four weeks," said the spokesperson, "The pothole was not present when the road was previously inspected on November 21, 2011."

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This article appeared in Impartial Reporter 09 Feb 12

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