A Dumfries driver has been forced to fork out for repairs after bursting two tyres within weeks on pothole-plagued roads in the town. Paul McDowell is more than £200 down after hitting a hole in Castle Douglas Road that council workers had inspected just days before.
But it wasn’t classed as a high priority to be repaired. Six weeks later, Mr McDowell was left fuming when the tyre he’d just replaced, was burst driving over another pothole in Laurieknowe Road. He said: “It’s only because I had my daughter and her friend in the car during the first incident on February 6 and was driving quite slow that a serious accident wasn’t caused.
“It was 8pm and pitch black. The tyre burst when I went through a pothole and before the tyre company that had come from Castle Douglas to change it had left, there were another three cars stranded with burst tyres after hitting the same pothole.
