Driver goes to war with council over pothole damage and wins
Leon Poultney
Updated
FROM JOHN JEFFAY AT CASCADE NEWS LTD 0161 660 8087 / 07771 957773 john@cascadenews.co.uk Syndicated for Colchester Gazette Frank Cattarall, standing in one of the pot holes in Greenstead Road that ruined his car MOTORIST Frank Cattrall used a Freedom of Information request to win a payout for pothole damage to his car. . Essex County Council had refused to pay £500 bill for repairs ? claiming they hadn?t known about a 6in deep hole. But Frank, 62, turned detective, discovered that a council worker had reported the hole three months earlier, and took them to court. He?d driven over a hole in Greenstead Road, Colchester, Essex, wrecking his Renault?s suspension. The county council refused to accept responsibility for the 18ins and 6ins deep hole ? even though a council worker had reported the hole three months earlier.
When Essex County Council refused to cover the cost of Frank Cattrall's broken suspension following a run-in with a nasty pothole, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
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