Protest over car damaged in Tesco Car park pot hole.

Express & Star

Halesowen and nearly £2000 worth of damage caused by a pot hole at Tesco, lead to a man blocking that entrance to the car park for a period.

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00:00OK, we're here with Craigie motorist Ben Day, outside Tesco Express in Hales Owen.

00:08On the day that £204 million has been announced in the West Midlands to fix potholes, an increase

00:15nationally of £1.6 billion in 2025, you've got a story to tell on your almost brand new

00:22car, the Nissan X-Trail, which is over there.

00:24I have, yes.

00:26What happened yesterday?

00:28So I came into the car park to get some groceries, noticed a pothole, tried to dodge it and I

00:34couldn't.

00:35My car wheel got stuck inside the pothole, it scratched all my alloy, my tyre and my

00:40suspension.

00:41And you've shown us the invoice for the damage, you've already had it done but it's over £1,900

00:48isn't it?

00:49That's right, yeah, that's right.

00:51And you're planning to protest, or you're talking about protesting here, other motorists

00:56we have been in and asked in the shop have complained about it.

01:01What do you think about this particular pothole, it's obviously a big one.

01:05This is ridiculous, this is crazy, you know, there's so much money floating around everywhere

01:09and potholes like this need to be fixed, need to be repaired, because it's damaging brand

01:12new cars, old cars, classic cars, any cars, it's damaging them, it needs to be fixed.

01:18And do you find generally there's a lot of potholes that need to be fixed around?

01:22There's loads now, loads.

01:24Any road you go onto, there's loads, any road.

01:27I mean how much did you pay for your car if you don't mind me asking, you only bought

01:30it in December last year.

01:31Only December, yeah, so I mean, I don't really want to say how much I paid for it, but a

01:35large amount of money was paid for that car, a large amount.

01:40OK, thanks for talking to us today.

01:42So Ben, you've got the car there now, blocking the entrance, I presume just to stop it happening

01:49to anybody else here?

01:50Exactly, you know, what should it happen to anybody else, it's going to cost me almost

01:54a few thousand pounds to get it repaired, and they're willing to do nothing about it.

01:57So I'll help other people and stop it from happening to them.

02:01So you took your bill in, what was the response that you had from the people in store?

02:06Private landlord, nothing we can do, and they weren't going to give me details of the landlord

02:10or anything.

02:11So you can't even write to the landlord to complain?

02:13No.

02:14OK, interesting, interesting.

02:15So yeah, you just, I guess you feel you're doing a service here, if you don't block it

02:19then someone else is going to...

02:20My other argument is that there is no signpostage on anywhere outside Tesco stating that this

02:26is privately owned.

02:27Yeah.

02:28You've spoke to three or four people here, they've initially come to come out the exit

02:32here, you've explained why your car's here.

02:34That's right, yeah.

02:35What have they said?

02:36Have they been angry at you, or have they understood?

02:38No, they've said that's fine, you know what you've got to do, you understand, you know,

02:41it's got to be done about it.

02:42Yeah, yeah.

02:43It's crazy.

02:44And there was one lady you chatted to, she looked quite shocked when you said the bill

02:47it had cost you.

02:48That's right, yeah.

02:49But she said that her car's gone down a few times as well, and she's spoke to them, but

02:52they're not willing to help her or speak to her about it.

02:54Yeah, yeah.

02:55OK, cheers boss.

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