Read the road and you can dodge the potholes

INSTRUCTOR GIVES TIPS ON AVOIDING POTENTIALLY COSTLY HAZARD

- By HOWARD LLOYD

A DRIVING instructor specialising in potholes says there is one thing drivers can do to avoid paying out thousands of pounds on car repairs.

Paul Whitburn, 58, runs pothole avoidance lessons for his students after becoming alarmed at the state of the roads around his driving school near Nottingham.

He has paid out £1,000 on repairs to his car caused by potholes over the past 14 months, with one incident involving a student who suffered a blowout during a lesson.

Paul has now come up with a number of handy tips for drivers, with the key one being how to spot a deep pothole before it’s too late.

Paul, who has run a driving school in Sutton-in-Ashfield for 16 years, said: “If you look at the colour of the pothole as you approach it, you can usually tell how deep it is.