Weekly Video: Potholes 'carnage' in a Bury St Edmunds neighbourhood as residents say roads have become like a game of Mario Kart

Suffolk News

Residents in Mount Road, on the Moreton Hall estate, have spoke of the 'carnage' on roads in the area, with one resident saying using them has become like a game of Mario Kart.

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00:00 Sheer carnage gripped a Bury St Edmunds neighbourhood in the latest spate of pothole-related accidents

00:05 as the scale of the problem affecting the county's roads was revealed.

00:09 Residents in Mount Road on the Morton Hall Estate spoke of the roads becoming like a game of Mario Kart

00:14 as drivers swerved to avoid craters.

00:17 Claire Clements said she witnessed the situation at near the Mount Road junctions to Tassel Road and Appledown Drive

00:23 with motorists veering out of the way at the potholes.

00:25 Meanwhile, a Freedom of Information request by Suffolk News found the number of pothole reports across the county

00:32 increased by 180% in the space of a year.

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