REVEALED: How Councils Get Away Without Paying Compensation For Pothole Damage

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*How to claim for pothole damage – skip to 9:35*

0:00 - Intro
0:20 - My senario
2:09 - Councils are responsible BUT...
2:56 - Did the hole cause the damage?
3:20 - Did they inspect the road?
6:55 - Rotten foundations
7:32 - Another cover up
9:35 - How to claim for pothole damage
10:55 - If this helped, please hit the Thumbs Up and considering Subscribing!

The Pothole Loophole: How Councils are getting out of paying YOU compensation

If you are watching this, I’m guessing that you have hit a pothole and damaged your car. This is exactly what happened to me and by going through process of trying to claim compensation, I have uncovered a loophole that I believe many councils across the UK are using to deny thousands of claims every year, costing us, the British public, millions of pounds.

The Pothole Loophole is a loophole I have found when applying for compensation after a pothole damaged my car. Council claims are always tricky but when I found out how they are using paperwork and process to cover pothole damage to car uk, I was compelled to make a video and share this with you.

pothole damage to car suspension, pothole damaged my wheel, pothole damage to tire or pothole damage to car? Whatever the damage, you are probably looking for help on how to claim for pothole damage to tyres and how to make a pothole claim. If you are making council claims potholes or looking for pothole damage reimbursement or making pothole damage claim, this video should help you pothole how to make a claim.



Councils are responsible for the condition of the roads, however they cannot monitor every inch of every road every minute of every day – that is simply impossible. Therefore, from a legal standpoint, there is no automatic right to compensation when damage is caused.

By Law – and under the Highway Act – Councils have a duty to inspect and maintain the highway. It has a statutory duty to keep the public highway free from danger to all users.

Therefore, in order to be successful with a claim, you need to prove three things:

1) The pothole caused the damage
2) They failed to maintain the required level of inspections and
3) They didn’t carry out the necessary repairs in accordance with the policy recommendations.

Point 1 sounds easy, however if you hit a hole and don’t notice anything for a couple weeks, it is very easy to argue that something else in that period caused the damage. Also bare in mind you have to prove the damage wasn’t there already.

Roads in the UK are given different classifications and depending on the classification, they are monitored at different intervals.

So the B4100 in my example is a “Main Distributor Route” and is inspected monthly.

A report of this nature – a form filled in using pen and paper – is totally venerable and completely open to fraud.

And this rocky foundation is where the whole tower starts to crumble. As, in point 3 – “Carry out the necessary repairs in accordance with the policy recommendations” – this is simply totally impossible.

If you were given this report, you would assume there are no defects – afterall, that’s what the report says – and therefore no work to repair the road would be completed.

Furthermore, when a claim is lodged, this report would indicate that an inspection was completed prior to your incident and, by law, the council will have fulfilled its legal obligation and is therefore not liable.

And the real cherry on the top of all this? Once the hole is reported and repair work is scheduled, you can’t claim for damage as the council has the right to a acceptable period of time to repair the hole.

In summary then, what should be a fairly simple and robust process of keeping Britain’s roads safe is, in my opinion, nothing short of a massive cover up.

If you ever need to claim compensation, you have an almost impossible task of proving that the council was negligent in its duties. This is compounded by several, what could be described as questionable, layers of protection, made up of rigid definitions, dubious inspections, inaccurate paperwork and blind assumption.

In my opinion, the process is as bad as the roads they are trying to manage. Layer after layer of shoddy patch work that leaves us out of pocket.

So what can you do?

Put simply, you need to fight.

If you hit a pothole, get evidence immediately. Photos, videos, measurements, get as much as possible to prove without doubt this hole caused this damage.

If you can, and with the right evidence, you might – just – get some compensation.

At the time filming, I was still going through the process of claiming compensation, some six months after my claim was logged.

So don’t expect a response straight away or an easy battle, but hopefully this video – and the information I’ve found and shared with you today – will help you be successful.