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A racing car manufacturer tycoon has slammed the shoddy road repairs in his county which has an 'unprecedented' number of craters, telling the council 'you must be on drugs'.

Lawrence Whittaker furiously ranted over Lancashire County Council's repairs. He called a road 'one of the worst in Britain' after posting photos of potholesA racing car manufacturer tycoon has slammed the shoddy road repairs in his county which has an 'unprecedented' number of craters, telling the council 'you must be on drugs'.

Replying to a comment on his post, Mr Whittaker added: 'It must have only been a month ago they bodged the repairs and now it needs doing again?! Lunacy.' Father and son Andrew and Lawrence Whittaker bought the company in 2013 and build 'a range of historic racing cars and tuned Jaguar vehicles'. Pictured is a Lister Knobbly 'BHL 163C'.

Her late husband suffered a fatal brain injury after his front wheel lodged in the crack, described as a 6in-deep 'trench'. Four months before the accident the local parish council arranged for pictures of it to be sent to highways bosses. Last month, the Mail reported how Rebecca Salisbury, 23, dislocated her ankle by tripping over a pothole and was told by Lancashire County Council that the craters are a 'fact of life' when she asked for compensation.

But she was left appalled when their rejection letter quoted the past legal case, which also said 'in a less than perfect world', potholes should be expected. The pot was set aside under £36billion in savings after the Government last year scrapped the high-speed rail project's northern leg from Birmingham to Manchester.

And research undertaken by the Centre for Economics and Business Research revealed that potholes on British roads are costing the economy £14billion, and may take 11 years to fix due to the low quality of the UK's road network.

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