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Tag: potholes

Posted on 12 May 202612 May 2026

And you think OUR potholes are bad!

This lorry came to grief as workers prepared to fix a pothole in a crumbling road in Somerset.

You’ve got to love the irony, given the name of the company involved (isn’t their HQ in Scaldwell?)

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