Driver wins over £1million in compensation for injury caused by pothole
A VICTORIOUS driver has won a payout of more than £1million for an injury caused by a pothole.
The unnamed motorist received the huge sum of £1,188,565.25 after a four-year legal battle over the dodgy road.
The mammoth payout by the Labour-run Welsh Government is thought to be one of the UK’s biggest ever made.
The compensation, paid four years after the motorist was injured sometime in 2018-19, was unveiled after a Freedom of Information Act request found dozens of similar claims.
The figures revealed the Welsh Government had settled 11 claims for pothole-related vehicle damage over the past five years and two claims for injuries.
Over that time, the typical highest payout for vehicle damage claims was £1,077.
Furious campaigners are demanding action — with lead crusader Mark Morrell, known as “Mr Pothole”, claiming badly-kept roads cost the UK up to £10billion a year.
Mr Morrell said: “Until there is a proper roads resurfacing programme, things will get worse.”
Pothole repairs have fallen to the lowest figure in a decade as inflation squeezes council budgets.
A total of 1.4million were filled in last year at a cost of £93.7million.
Yet 1.7million potholes were filled in each of 2021 and 2022 — and 2.7million in 2015.