Croydon believes it has the biggest pothole!

A story we read from the Croydon Your Local Guardian, is that a two metre long, metre wide pothole on Parkway in New Addington, Croydon has seen drivers swerving to avoid the gaping hole or screeching to a halt when confronted by its enormity – quite like the video we posted of a pothole in Russia.

The recent Arctic conditions earlier in January have continued to cause chaos on the roads, with potholes cropping up all over the place, and this is possibly the biggest in the UK.

As we have explained, water freezes below the road it forms into ice, expands and causes cracks that then turn into potholes once the weather warms again.

Croydon local resident Eileen Smith said: "I agree that this road needs completely digging out and to be repaired to a proper standard."

"I really do not feel that throwing a couple of shovels of gravel into these holes is the answer."

"Everybody who owns a car pays road tax and therefore the roads should be maintained to a good standard."

Special Tarmac Pothole Repair link for Croydon Council

Fill your boots ...I mean potholes!

Let us know if you see a bigger pothole.