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A month before the accident, workers from North Yorkshire County Council inspected the pothole, after police reported it as a hazard. Disastrously, it was decided that immediate repairs werent necessary. At this weeks inquest hearing, the coroner, Rob Turnbull, said there was no doubt whatsoever that the condition of the road on that occasion was the cause of the incident. The Giggleswick pothole was just one of what must be millions that have appeared across the country in recent years and, sadly, Martyn Uzzells death is one of many caused by potholes. Several icy winters in a row, followed by this years floods, have created unprecedented numbers of these lethal hazards. Indeed, drivers or cyclists can barely attempt a short journey without encountering a route littered with potholes. Of course, it is impossible to be able to count exactly how many there are, but data collected last year suggested that if they were all joined together, there would be around 2. Isle of Wight. Numbers have certainly got worse over the past few years, says Bella Bathurst, author of The Bicycle Book. She says many are huge and have to be marked with traffic cones that barely poke above the surface of the road. Everywhere from motorways to local lanes is affected. I suffered a bad hand injury several years ago, cycling through Bloomsbury in London at night. My front wheel locked in a pothole, sending me flying over the handlebars. I came to earth several feet in front of my bike, with my right hand absorbing most of the force of my landing. The 1. 8in wide, 4in deep pothole was practically invisible in the dark. But this yawning hole in the middle of the road should have been glaringly obvious to Camden Council during the day. And easy to repair, too the average pothole only costs 5. I did get a few hundred pounds in compensation from the council, but only because I was extremely bloody minded about the whole thing. I took photos of my injuries and the pothole, and fired off a furious letter, couched in all the right kind of legal language. It may have helped that I was a barrister at the time. The grim truth is that our national road system is a travesty of what it once was. Road maintenance in England and Wales is underfunded by 5. At current maintenance levels, the average frequency for road resurfacing in England is once every  5. In Wales, it is once every  1. Potholes are easy to fix and the average pothole only costs 5. If all local authorities were given the budgets they need to fix their roads, it would still take English authorities 1. Welsh authorities 1. At present, some potholes are filled within a day or two but many take up to a month to be dealt with. Its not surprising that potholes have become so widespread, then, and so damaging. They are estimated to cause as many as one in ten mechanical failures on UK roads, costing motorists an estimated 7. Its not just our roads that are a minefield the law associated with potholes is a minefield of small print, varying regulations and councils desperately trying to dodge their responsibilities. They are already paying out 3. Local authorities have a legal obligation to keep roads in good repair, but they have become infuriatingly good at wriggling out of this requirement. There is no universal standard for road care, with each authority setting different schedules on how often their roads are inspected. And there is no standard for what constitutes a dangerous pothole the criteria change from council to council. Road maintenance in England and Wales is underfunded by 5. So, if you suffer damage either to your suspension, or to your hand it wont be immediately clear if the council will pay out. If theyve abided by their own regulations, then they may well not be liable. And, even if they are liable, they wont always admit it. Its very difficult for the average motorist, because theres so little information on potholes thats readily available to them, says Rory Buckley, a spokesman for potholes. On the website, users can report pothole stories and post pothole photos, as well as researching how to claim for pothole damage. The typical kind of suspension damage has an average repair cost of 2. For that kind of money, you dont want to go to the expense of getting a lawyer, says Mr Buckley. And you dont want to claim on your insurance and lose your no claims bonus. So people take the hit themselves without complaining, and an awful lot of pothole damage goes unreported. In theory, the law on potholes is simple enough its the councils responsibility to keep up the roads. However, each council sets its own schedule of checks. Usually they have to check an A road every few days, a  B road more infrequently, and then more obscure roads once a month, depending on the amount of traffic. If a council sticks to that schedule, theres really not much you can do to claim for any damage to your car unless, of course, theres some  exceptional evidence of negligence on their behalf. The councils set out the parameters and thats the unfair thing, says Mr Buckley. Three years ago, some councils changed the dimensions of what they deemed acceptable wear and tear to roads. They made the size of the potholes you could claim on that much bigger. We kicked up a bit of a stink over that. You dont solve a problem by changing the parameters. As a result of all this jiggery pokery, and the underfunding of our road network, weve ended up with one of the worst pothole problems in Europe. When a council is presented with a new pothole, it has a choice it can carry out a temporary repair quickly filling up the hole, and keeping the road safe for a few days or it can cut out the pothole and properly relay the section of road. The second option is, of course, more expensive. But the first is just a stopgap measure. Councils soon lose control of the backlog if they dont deal with the problem through long term repairs. The crisis has been deepened by recent unusually cold winters, before this unusually wet one. In our climate, tarmac roads are peculiarly susceptible to potholes. In colder countries, the road stays frozen for months and then thaws once, at the end of winter. In Britain, its freeze thaw freeze thaw. In a bad winter, the freeze thaw process can happen more than 5. That is terrible for road surfaces potholes are formed when water seeps into tarmac, freezes and expands, and then thaws, cracking and crumbling the road surface. Authorities are already paying out 3. When the ice melts, more water seeps inside the crack and the problem worsens during the next freeze.