Harry Colledge, 84, (pictured) suffered a fatal brain injury after his front wheel lodged in the crack, described as a 6in-deep 'trench'. He would be alive had the council repaired it, a coroner has ruled.
Harry Colledge suffered a fatal brain injury after his wheel lodged in the crackA retired teacher thrown from his bike after hitting a decade-old crack in the road would still be alive had the local council repaired it, a coroner has ruled.
Mr Colledge's widow Valerie wrote movingly in the Daily Mail in support of our End the Pothole Plague campaign following last January's tragedy. Mr Colledge suffered a fatal brain injury after his front wheel lodged in the crack, described as a 6in-deep 'trench'. The pothole is pictured above Four months before the accident the local parish council arranged for pictures of it to be sent to highways bosses.
Recording a narrative conclusion, coroner Kate Bisset found that had the hazard been repaired, Mr Colledge would not have died. She added that both inspections had been of an unacceptable standard, saying Mr Colledge's family were 'well within their rights to be outraged'.
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