Cyclists are being injured and drivers left with costly car repairs as British roads continue deteriorating
Andrew Leach, 66, was cycling to his daughter’s netball match in Oxford in November 2021 when he hit a pothole, falling off his bike. He lay in the middle of the Oxfordshire B-road, unable to move, for about 90 minutes, until police arrived and moved him to the side of the road.
“It was coming up to rush hour. I think I am very lucky not to have been killed,” he said, as passersby followed advice to wait for an ambulance. “It showed the state of emergency services too – they’re clearly overstretched.” Following a three-hour wait for an ambulance, Leach was taken to hospital: the fall had broken his hip.
