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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Neil Lancefield

Drivers being put at risk by ‘highways riddled with potholes’

Road conditions in England are “a national embarrassment” and drivers are being put at risk by “highways riddled with potholes”, the head of a House of Commons committee has said.

Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said roads in such poor condition were “harming the prospects for our economy and communities’ own social wellbeing”.

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