A giant pothole has left twelve cars stranded on the same stretch of road after their tyres were all completely wrecked.
One furious driver’s photo on Instagram shows the stricken vehicles lined up at the side of a road just north of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria on Thursday.
The photo was captioned: “Just outside Seymour, 12 cars, all hit the same pothole, all done front and back tyres."
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One unlucky driver, Varmodh Shardh, said they had been stuck for hours after his car was damaged by the pothole, which he hadn’t seen because it was still dark.
“When we pulled up, there were another 10, 15 cars parked along here with lights flashing,” he said.
Varmodh said that he’d tried to call for a roadside rescue but there were no trucks available. “What the hell are we supposed to do?” he asked. “We can’t get hold of any tow truck or anybody. We’ve been here three hours.”
State premier Dan Andrews was blamed for the damage by several commenters. One, referring to the premier’s campaign to modify level crossings, wrote: “Thanks Dan! Maybe country roads should be a priority over removing boom gates."
Another local added: “Victorian roads are actually the worst I've experienced in all of Australia."
“I have never seen so many potholes and pieces of road missing and so so much water!” another exasperated motorist wrote.
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Mr Andrews has promised new funding for rapid repairs after being briefed about the road damage.
He didn’t specify how much was allocated or when it would be spent but insisted: “Money will not be the issue.”
He blamed severe weather for the the slow progress on road repairs: ““You get into this situation where you put the bitumen down and without the proper dry weather for it to cure traffic over it just rips it up again,” Mr Andrews said.
“That’s been the only limiting factor to get more and more of those potholes fixed. Not money, not will, it’s been all about weather. And of course that will still be a factor.”
Dr Tim Martin from the Australian Road Research Board told The Age that floods often caused severe damage to roads, creating potholes, ruining drainage, or washing away the entire road surface.
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