Repair of rural road not priority

A RIDGE in a road in Nuney Green that has caused damage to vehicles has been classified as a “medium risk”.

The hump in the road leading to the hamlet near Cane End is about 5m long and 20cm high in places.

Last week, resident Adornino Basso told the Henley Standard that the state of the road had caused around £3,000 worth of damage to his two cars, a Lotus and a Porsche.

He offered to repair the road himself but was told not to by Oxfordshire County Council, the highways authority.

Now the road has been classed a category 3 risk defect by the council, which has marked out the ridge with white paint.

The council says that because of its size, the road will require further investigation before being included in a resurfacing or repair programme.

Mr Basso believes the ridge was caused by vehicles, including logging trucks, passing over a weakened part of the road.

He said: “Because that road has never had a proper substructure, it’s just Tarmac over soil and it has got nothing underneath to support it.”