Fed-up residents have told how they are being kept awake all night by cars driving over a loose manhole cover which makes a sound like 'gunshots.'
The noisey cover in a street in Maidstone, Kent, has been sounding off for over a week now, with those living nearby saying this isn’t the first time it has broken.
In a short video clip of the road, the manhole cover is driven over - producing the clattering noise - five times in just 18 seconds.
Helen Ralph has been living next to the road for the past 15 years and says the constant noise of lorries driving over the drain keeps her up at night.
“We don’t get a good night's sleep because I’m right near the main road and I hear everything," the retired 58-year-old said.
“I hear every car, every lorry that goes up the road and that drain going donk, donk, donk, all night long, so you can imagine you can’t get to sleep.
“It sounds like a gun going off, but it’s not the first time, that drain has been like that before.”
Kent County Council has said it is aware of the issue and is speaking to the utility company responsible for the manhole cover to be repaired.
But Ms Ralph says this is the third time the same drain has had issues.
The noisey cover in a street in Maidstone, Kent, has been sounding off for over a week now, with those living nearby saying this isn’t the first time it has broken.
In a short video clip of the road, the manhole cover is driven over - producing the clattering noise - five times in just 18 seconds.
Helen Ralph has been living next to the road for the past 15 years and says the constant noise of lorries driving over the drain keeps her up at night.
“We don’t get a good night's sleep because I’m right near the main road and I hear everything," the retired 58-year-old said.
“I hear every car, every lorry that goes up the road and that drain going donk, donk, donk, all night long, so you can imagine you can’t get to sleep.
“It sounds like a gun going off, but it’s not the first time, that drain has been like that before.”
Kent County Council has said it is aware of the issue and is speaking to the utility company responsible for the manhole cover to be repaired.
But Ms Ralph says this is the third time the same drain has had issues.
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