In the U.S. we drive on the side that"s right, and you only drive on the the side that's left, because for you that's the side that's right. Which side is right? Only questions are left.
@@yixnorb5971 its not so much about which side of the road is right, its more about the position you sit in when driving. Sitting in the right position in the car is the beginning. You guys are still getting there. See you soon.
This was really unlucky, but I was really impressed with how calm you were and how you didn't blame your student for the accident. My driving instructor would have shouted at me for not seeing it :/
Yeah it was awesome of him, my instructor was visibly stressed and frustrated with me after I burst one of his tyres. Glad to know there are much more understanding and forgiving people, driving as a learner can be extremely anxious and scary so it’s important to have someone supportive like this with you
I didn't see the pot hole until the last minute (and only because I was looking for it). I'm very impressed by your immediate telling your pupil to not worry. My natural reaction would be to be upset before realizing it was probably next to unavoidable. Good on you for being so courteous.
That's not a problem I face on my bike. But with 2.2 inch tyres and 140mm of front and rear travel potholes feel like nothing. But on my other bikes potholes are hellish
My route to work featured in the local newspaper with the headline, welcome to the Grand Canyon. Whats saved me from getting punctures so far is my failure to keep correct tyre pressures.
Tbf the learner did well to maintain control n not panic. Going down a big pothole can take even an experienced driver by surprise and make then panic.
I have to say credit to you for staying so calm when this happened, learner drivers can have a hard time and driving when nervous or frightened, you done a good job 👏🏻 .
I feel your pain having to pay for two new tyres. I like the way you turn these events into a learning experience for all. I do a lot of cycling so any tips to spot potholes are very welcome.
South Lanarkshire council were so frickin lazy about pot holes on a mile long stretch of 60mph main road that they put 20mph and speed bump signs up. It was like that for 5 years.
Some guy was upp my ass on a country lane we were going slow because we know there is a massive pothole up ahead, we avoided it and he ran right over it! 😂 lol he instantly pulled back and followed us and our movements.
The roads around wrexham are horrendous for pot holes. Even the A483 dual carriage way has them, which is pretty hard to avoid in heavy traffic in the dark at 70. Also the font of my car , wing mirrors and alloys are covered in stone chips . It’s only 8 months old! This isn’t from any tailgating, but from the debris from the pot holes all over the roads. I have a dent in my bonnet from a van traveling in the opposite direction hitting a pot hole and throwing up the contents over my car. It’s soul destroying for someone like me who is ocd about cleaning and maintaining their car. Councils should be held more accountable. Im sure they are employing gypsies to tarmac roads with cheap asphalt!!
David Jones it’s the same all over the UK. It’s the fact they are always temporary repairs so before long with all the rain and frost getting under the asphalt and then articulated lorries hitting it.. the road starts breaking up immediately after being repaired
I’ve passed a year ago but still watch these because it’s stuff I was never taught. I was taught you HAVE to drive over them on lessons and a test. If avoided on a test then you’ll be failed for control or steering
In Tijuana I noticed traffic turning right onto a side street slowing down ahead of the blind turn well ahead of this blind turn and then taking an extremely wide turn. Apparently the locals knew there would be a manhole cover missing in the road, visible only after initiating the turn. I then saw a street vendor cooking tortillas on the manhole cover. Also saw kids painting crosswalk lines using paint rollers. Only in TJ.
I stopped road biking altogether 2 years ago, the pot holes from then haven't been filled in they've just engulfed the entire road. I would bike down them on mtb, but they're country backs and are now too dangerous for bikers and other vehicles to be on at the same time with both having to avoid or slow for cracks in the earths crust.
I really enjoy watching yr channel. Even though i've been driving for 25+ yrs i still feel that watching & seeing how you teach your pupils really helps me to learn myself. I've certainly hit a few potholes in my time and more recently a drain cover which some nice people left in the road for me to hit at 4am one morning much to my horror but luckily no ruined tyres or suspension. Sounded like a bomb going off and scared the crap out of me!!
Ashley Neal absolutely yes, if they were informed about the pothole before you hit it and haven’t fixed it you should be due compensation. I think they are allowed a week to fix it.. can’t quite remember. You’ve got video evidence which helps too. The only way they can deny liability is either if you are the first person to make them aware of it or they are still within timescale to get it fixed. If someone were to hit the pothole today I can 100% say they would receive compensation because we know you reported it 2 weeks ago. They could try and say the cones were there but they’re useless if there’s someone coming the other way I would think.
Councils are notorious at avoiding pothole claims. For example: "Although you might be able to claim for the cost of any repairs, it’s important to understand that the relevant highway authority does have a statutory defence. They can’t be held responsible for a pothole they didn’t know about, either because it hadn’t been reported to them, or because it wasn’t picked up by them during their regular checks." Assuming here that the council will always use this argument to refuse paying out - then you're pretty much screwed. Unless you can prove it HAD been previously reported. www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/pothole-damage-how-to-claim
This one just popped up in my feed. I was wondering how you'd get a blown tire from a pothole... by driving through it! They're the normal state of roads here in New Jersey, and driving around them has, sadly, become second nature (never drive through a puddle you can't see the bottom of, unless you like expensive repairs). Thank you for this channel. Even though it takes a bit of adjusting to driving on the left side I find it very educational.
It's the hidden potholes underwater that are the worst. As you say slow down if you can't avoid them . might save yourself more than the cost of 2 tyres, an old friend of mine wrecked 2 alloy wheels in a hidden pothole a few years back (low profile tyres on an alfa romeo)
Happened to me in my last car. Winding country lane, oncoming traffic over the centre line, it was either side-swipe or go into the pothole. I got two punctures straightaway and then over the next few months one failed wheel bearing and both coil springs on that side. It was an expensive decision! Couldn't sue the council as I had technically gone over the solid side-line to avoid crashing. The daft thing is, there is enough room on that road as long as people stay in their half.
This reminds me of a scene from Keeping Up Appearences where Hyancinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) said to her husband Richard "Mind the potholes" and Richard replied in a sarcastic manner "Minding the potholes". Random comment I know but I found it a funny scene.
@@yixnorb5971 There was one where Hyacinth was trying to get a man out of a phone box by hammering on the window and Richard yelled at her to get back in the car!
Our roads really do take a hammering, particularly through winter, with all the freeze-thaw; and with a lot of roads seeing more trucks every day, it doesn't end well for the road surface. Bolton council have been having a good go at patching our street up, since it's a bus route, but just as soon as they have one crater patched up; there's a new one opening up mere feet away. The whole road surface is disintegrating, and it's all they can do to play whack-a-mole with the worst of the potholes. It's ridiculous.
@@Devilacme Yep sidewall flex protects the wheel but the wheels cannot be protected by that if there is little sidewall flex. Alloys wheels will crack and steel wheels will buckle or bend under pressure.
Apparently our council has just arranged for cameras to be fitted to dustcarts specifically looking for potholes so they should be spotted within a week or so and repaired a few days after that. We'll see...
In Bristol they built a whole new roundabout for the metro bus and for the south Bristol link but a few metres down the road they couldn’t bother fixing a massive pothole in the middle of the road. The contractors need to be held to higher standards. The council don’t ensure we get the best out of the money given from tax
I hit one just last night that activated my dashcams emergency recording. It thought I had been in a crash! Luckily my tyre was fine... somehow. The worst pothole I have hit in 6 years of driving. The roads in my area are absolutely awful at the moment, spring can't come sooner!
In parts of Nottingham you can see the flow of traffic swerve to avoid the potholes. My parents have a lot of the ones local to them memorised... Theres also sections of road where the road markings are so poor its hard to tell whats going on. One is a 2 lane bit of road with markings so bad you often see people in the middle with no idea that its a 2 lane road...
I think low profile and even semi low profile tyres are more fragile than regular ones. And some/many new cars (inc mine) only come with a puncture repair kit....no spare tyre. I also think these potholes wear out the suspension components much faster....eg, suspension bushes. I’m leaning towards a modest 4x4 next time with big tyres on it.
Having been the victim of a similar incident myself, taking out two tyres. I claimed for the cost of two replacement tyres from Transport NI. Over here in Northern Ireland the local councils don’t maintain the roads it’s one large government body. Within 24 hours of me submitting my claim the pothole had a yellow spray paint mark around it. It took them another month to repair the pothole. They did pay out on the two tyres thankfully but it took them about another 2 months to do so. Once they spray paint a mark around the pothole they use this as their get out clause as they say they are aware of it and your should have been able to see it and avoid it and will not pay out on a marked pothole. I would certainly make a claim Ashley if I was you! Also any recovery costs your encored as a result of it👍
Where I live the Local Council "Repair" is to Spray a White mark around it and Leave for several weeks then Dump some cheap light duty Asphalt in it and within a few months that either reopens OR the original Pothole Shows with the Councils Blob repair sitting proudly like an Island in the Centre 😲
I did exactly that when coming down the A82 (the winding road past Loch Lomond)) in Jan 2018. The new Jaguar in front hit what I think in retrospect was a tarmac plug from a filled pothole, and me two seconds behind did the same. We pulled up together. He had no spare, as is the way with many modern cars, and had to call out Jaguar assist on Warranty. This was to take at least three hours they said. I had a spare, which I proceeded to change in the rain and snow, as well as in the dark next to a high stone wall on the side of a very busy narrow road. Not fun! My second tyre I could do nothing about, and had to call the police. In the end a brilliant police traffic Sergeant from Glasgow came out, sorted out a new tyre and fitter, and finally got me underway! But that all took five hours! I did claim from the road maintenance people, and with the police incident number they agreed to reimburse me the £400.
Many years ago I was driving down a backstreet in London. it had speed bumps, it was night, the street lighting was not good. Car was a WRX. I crested the first half dozen bumps perfectly, the seventh had what felt like a trench on the far side. Anyway, popped the fronts, but I didn't notice. Car handled perfectly well, turned and braked. It was only once I got home I spotted the issue :/ So these days if I hit a significant pothole I will stop and do a proper inventory. I'm guessing the fairly low profile and wide wheels helped, plus the fact I wasn't going fast.
Where I live if a pothole damages your car take a photo of the pothole, its location and the damage to your car. Also get the garage receipt for repair costs, stick it all in an envelope and mail it to the council. Within a couple of weeks they send you a cheque in the post for the full cost of repairs and the pothole is repaired pretty quickly. Had a mate who hit a pothole where the road had partially collapsed into a drain underneath. Hole was about a foot deep! As his front wheel dropped into it his front bumper hit the road and got smashed up, burst both tyres on one side and buckled one of the alloys, and as his back wheel went in to the hole his rear bumper hit the road and got half ripped off. And that was on a car that hadn't been lowered or altered at all. Nearly £2000 of damage. Council paid every penny back to him!
I was on a 40mph road a few weeks ago in a Citroen C1, and there was a pot hole which I could not see at all, which I ended up wacking while doing 40. I genuinly thought the tires would had burst but they are ok, which I am amazed about, as it was one of the biggest thuds I have had going over a pot hole to this day. It's ridiculous
We should start by replacing major trunk road surfaces with concrete. Concrete can last many times the lifespan of asphalt/tarmac. Sections of the M25 between the A3 and M3 are concrete and have lasted for many years without repair. One of the downsides is noise, but personally, noise is better than constant road repair and risk of blowing a tyre.
One of the downsides is noise.................. yea you forget one thing here mate... when it rain...Concrete Compaired to asphalt/tarmaC have a 80% less grip!
That level of grip loss depends on how the concrete was finished. Scored and grooved concrete such as on the M25 usually provides excellent traction. If we all drove within the bounds of our vehicles in poor weather and in regular situations in general, we shouldn’t need to worry about grip so much. Concrete has the potential to last 30-40 years as a road surface.
My car has been in the garage twice thanks to Wrexham council. Hit a pothole at 40mph and snapped the spring (road has since been resurfaced) and damaged a wheel over another pothole at 30mph (was filled in within 2 weeks)
This happened to me on the west side of Dublin on a very dark wet night with no street lighting as it’s a country road. I lost two left side wheels and a box of empty bottles in the car boot smashed. The next day the hole was filled in by the county council when I tried to claim for the damage. The massive pot hole was invisible because of the rain. I did get a fright.
Ouch, that sounds painful. At least nothing worse came of it though and the pupil had to stop on the main road for a blowout. Well done to the pupil for reacting well to the aftermath!
I noticed the pot hole at 1:19 not much you could have done. Student did steer towards the left but still, if there is alot of water. Or road is discolored try your best to aviod that aera. Still, best to damage your wheels then swurve towards that oncoming car, bad timing for the most part!
Where I’m from in the South East it’s just the drains that are the main problem! For whatever reason so many manhole covers or drains are sunk so deep into the ground that some are worse then potholes.
It is not just tyres it can pop it can damage a lot more things you dont really think about like the springs and shockers as well as all the rubber joins in the suspension so if you hit one and damages the tyre ask the one that repairs the tyre if any more damage has been do as a cracked spring can be missed till it finally gives way and you dont want that while driving on the motorway at speed.
Road i take to work has a pothole that's about 3 foot wide, about four foot long, and probably about 6 inches deep (guessing from how deep the cone was). What have they done about it? Stuck a traffic cone in it. Poor girl lost a tyre to a pothole nearby the other day, one that has been reported but not yet fixed. Friend of mine, his father lost a car on Christmas day of all days, because of a deep pothole. Driving home, he hit the pothole, totally shattered his alloy wheel, car jumped, ended up in a ditch. Seems we don't drive on THE left of the road, but WHAT'S left of the road. (edit) When i say the car jumped, the extent of the damage was that the suspension had also been severely damaged, bumper and intercooler damaged. Car was wrote off because of it. It was a national limit road, so i assume when he'd hit the hole, it must have been quite steep for the wheel to leave the road briefly, and skid into a ditch.
I have managed to destroy exactly one tire on a pothole. Mind you, that was a 75 profile tire. A very good tire. And a very good forged alloy wheel ruined beyond repair. The pothole was half a meter deep and had a big sharp rock on the receiving edge. Full of water so it looked like nothing.
I've hit some huge potholes. A couple times it rocked the entire video like it was a front end impact. It's nuts. My whole car went up in the air but somehow no puncture.
This happended to me today , a truck swerved into my lane to avoid it i moved over a bit and i hit a pothole just like the one you hit i lost both passenger tires. Right when i am on the way to a interview for a new job too :( Port Arthur Tx
If a potholes a big one report it to the council responsible for highways maintenance. Down here in West Sussex, WSCC have a webpage to do that on. I'd assume most relevant authorities would have something similar. I believe that once verified as a pothole by the council they will pay out for any damages caused to vehicles by the pothole. So the onus is on them to get it filled in.
Ouch.. That sounded like a really bad impact. Were your wheels and suspension ok? In an impact like the one you had, it can knock the tracking off and buckle the wheels. The roads right now in the UK are really bad. I recently hit a big pothole but my tyre and wheel seem alright. I would see if you can get the council to pay for the tyres. It's also nice that you immediately told your student it wasn't her fault and you kept calm.
Wow that little thing was enough to pop 2 tyres? I got air once by hitting a huge pothole on a highway down in Atlanta. Lucky I've got a truck I guess.
Hmm, never been to liverpool, only the southwest, but in my opinion the roads on this video don't look too bad from what I can see. These are probably the safer roads in the area in terms of potholes though (probably don't want to take the learner down the bad ones understandably). Here in the state of Minnesota, there are 2 seasons, winter, and road construction. Roads here don't have that long of a life expectancy especially when a harsh spring with a lot of snow occurs. This spring there was a lot of snow, and very fast melting, just ripe for potholes and river flooding. (there was actually an advisory telling people to shovel the snow off their roofs before they collapse with the arrival of a large rain storm to soak into the existing snow.) Here in the country, the roads are alright with the exception of a few, but in the Shitty-apolis metro, a lot of roads with high traffic are run down. If it wasn't for the constant road works, there wouldn't be roads left to drive on here. I know of a few paved roads that might as well be torn up and turned into a dirt road.
2023 and there are craters everywhere. As a motorcyclist this is lethal for night riding. Councils must get a hold of this. The root of the problem though must be in the chemistry of how cement is made. It must be worth billions for the team that gets it right. Shocking that no one has.
I wish my instructor had been as calm and educational as you are when I was trying to get my motorcycle license when I was 16. I've watched many of your videos and I genuinely feel that you're the right person at the right job. My motorcycle instructor was pretty much the exact opposite of you. He would get visibly and audibly upset when you, a brand new rider with no experience, made a mistake, and he would make you feel bad about it. As a learner you ARE going to make mistakes, and as a nervous 16-year old the last thing you need is an instructor making you feel like shit and that you're the worst rider in the world. It completely turned me off even trying and after just three classes I quit, deciding that riding a motorcycle was not worth it. I did not try again until a few years later when I did it all on my own instead, which is not something I recommend, but it was successful and I got my license. At the time I didn't care because I was so happy to be riding, but later on I came to realize that even though I got my license by doing it on my own I really missed out on a lot of stuff you learn with a good instructor, like a whole different level of safety awareness, scanning your surroundings in the right way, proper riding technique in difficult conditions and so on. A few years ago I took a three day, all day, safety riding course and I'm glad I did even though by then I had already 20 years of experience as a rider. I learned a lot!
Not sure if it's all council's but ours will pay for the damage if you have proof....but the hole must have been reported already, else they'll claim they was unaware of the issue
I blitzed my tyre outside Whiston hospital. It was on a bend as well so unless you're familiar with that road (of which I am not) you've got no chance. Now I understand Knowsley council, a council that has canny farm in it probably isn't the most well off council in Britain but surely fixing pot holes where ambulance are flying in and out with dying people on the back would be a priority, no wonder anyone who steps foot in that hospital dies. Go in with a broken leg and come out in a body bag. Anyone who gets near it ends up with a brain hemorrhage.
My dad delivers food. If his tyres go, he's out of work for a day. Basically, lesson to be learnt is avoid potholes and go slow through puddles. You never know what is under the water. Hope your tyres get better soon
The state of Britain's roads is utterly abysmal. I've seen some craters around Aylesbury the size of a bathtub and about four inches deep. Try to avoid if possible and slow down. However. get your foot off the brake pedal before impact otherwise you're just making things worse. Also, keep your tyres at correct pressures, this is massively reduce the chance of tyre and rim damage. In fact I run my tyres all year round at the high load and high speed pressure settings. Contrary to popular myth this does NOT increase wear in the centre of the tread. Nor does it reduce the tyre's adhesion capabilities. The only downside is a slightly firmer ride. Modern steel belted radial tyres simply cannot bulge in the centre of the tread. IMPORTANT: If you're using textile belted tyres or bias-ply tyres then you should only use higher pressure settings when carrying heavy loads. I always go up on the load and speed ratings when buying tyres. My current car takes 225/45 R18 91(W). I fit 225/45 R18 95(Y). it's another couple of quid per wheel so when you're paying circa £150 for one tyre it's of no consequence. They are more durable and I find they stay in balance for longer throughout their lifetime. Probably made to slightly tighter tolerances.
The French repair potholes correctly. In Britain, where it is the local councils in the main, it is never done correctly, but as quickly and as cheaply as possible. They don't bond old to new at the correct temperatures. And it is very rare that the repair extends beyond the pothole to new, undamaged road surfaces.
Potholes should be a high priority fix and not ignored for YEARS, I see people waving all over the road where I live, avoiding potholes that appear every couple of metres down a long road, makes them look drunk lol
Dont drive thru puddles and dont drive thru a pot hole if you see it. Not only can it damage tyre and or wheel but will cause additional damage to the hole
we had potholes at the top of our road for 4 years. countless times they were reported to the council, three accidents involving them. one where two tires were burst, the man lots control and slammed into a utility pole knocking out power for half the street. and when they eventually got fixed, they reformed within 2 weeks because of the shit repair job. they were lethal and councils dont care about them
GoCycleCam oh, my point still stands though. Why are we paying them good money when they do bugger all about our roads? (I know that council tax pays for other things but I don't have street lights were I live).
Roads are "supposed to" have a "bank" of asphalt on both sides, so that you have little space to pull over in an emergency or to avoid collision in case a maniac is dangerously overtaking. Now i see we need it as a safety margin for poorly finished streets as well. 🤦♂️
It’s also worth noting the damage can be easily claimed via your local council on a public road.. Roads must be fit for purpose and any damage caused by them not being so is down to the council.. If it’s a privately maintained road, you claim against the company.. Take a picture, the location and the rest is simple.. This includes any additional damage, suspension and so on not just alloys or tyres, a report from a mechanic is often enough to satisfy a court.. Councils routinely pay out more in compensation than they actually do maintaining our roads annually.. Just another example of stupidly, where maintenance would in reality be cheaper than paying out on claims..
