Pothole Damage claims and amount

“I shall be grateful if the County Council will please advise me of the number of payments made to the public for damage to motor vehicles resulting from potholes over the last three years and the total cost of all these.”

In the last three financial years (2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19) Devon County Council (DCC) has settled 381 claims for pothole damage to vehicles and the total cost of these claims to the Council was £86,170.