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Bike rider who 'cheated death' to sue council
Somerset Guardian
|July 03, 2025
A cyclist who ‘cheated death’ when his front wheel got stuck in a rutted pothole is suing a council after discovering that another cyclist had suffered the same fate just weeks before.
Andy Bevan, inset, suffered serious multiple injuries when he went over the handlebars on Castle Road in Clevedon, six weeks after the ‘invisible crack’ was reported to North Somerset Council.
As he lay on the road with a fractured neck, a retired GP rushed to his aid and told him another cyclist had done the exact same thing on the same spot just six weeks earlier, and had complained to the council.
But the local authority told his lawyer they went out to inspect the road after that first complaint and didn’t think it needed repairing. Now, the former police detective is suing the council and calling for an earlywarning system to be put in place to alert people to hazardous road surfaces.
This story is from the July 03, 2025 edition of Somerset Guardian.
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