POTHOLES on a high street are so bad that jokers have turned them into a crazy golf course.
And yesterday The Sun grabbed a potter — sorry, putter — to join them for a round on the not-so-fairway.
Adrian SherrattA town in Wiltshire has made the most of a pothole crisis on their high street[/caption]
Sun Newspapers LtdCommunity volunteer Ben Thornbury, 18, chose a few holes and put up a sign reading ‘High Street Crazy Potholes Golf Now Open’[/caption]
Like an ever-growing number of roads across the country, the scarred 500-metre stretch in Malmesbury, Wilts, has around 50 holes, ranging in size from a few inches wide to several feet across.
Community volunteer Ben Thornbury, 18, chose a few and put up a fake roadwork sign reading: “High Street Crazy Potholes Golf Now Open”.
He said: “The potholes are a disgrace to the town, it looks like the moon. It’s not a good impression to visitors and certainly not good for vehicles.”
Fellow resident Ruth Strange, 63, said: “I’ve never seen it this bad.”
Kym Genare, 48, arrived with son Archie, ten and said: “It’s a nightmare, they’re everywhere.”
Play was interrupted when a small car scraped its exhaust
Last night Wiltshire councillor Caroline Thomas said: “There has been an increase in potholes across the country, not just in Wiltshire.
“We have recently been awarded an additional £3.6million from the Department for Transport and are looking at when works can be scheduled.”
The Sun told how a recent UK study showed that each week last year nearly two in three drivers hit a pothole.
Thirteen million drivers said they have had vehicle damage, twice as many as a decade ago, with repairs totalling £1.7billion.
Sun Newspapers LtdA recent UK study showed that each week lof last year nearly two in three drivers hit a pothole[/caption] Read More