Potholes are making our homes shake: Neighbours reveal how trucks hitting craters in the road create...

Residents living in a road plagued by potholes have told how their homes shake as if hit by 'earth tremors' when vans or trucks hit them and say they are living in fear of a sinkhole appearing unless urgent action is taken.

Other motorists have had to pay out hundreds of pounds to fix their cars after they are carved up by the holes that blight the community.People living on Sandown Road in Whitefield, Gtr Manchester, said the problem is getting worse as council workmen have botched repairsCarer David Taylor says his entire house shakes when cars pass his home'Whenever a truck or van goes past, the house shakes.'The potholes are getting bigger and bigger.'It's crazy.

The publisher added: 'My house does shake but I don't think it will collapse as the house's foundations are pretty deep. 'It's just going to be an ongoing thing. Whatever they are using it's just not working because within a week, when it rains, it's all sunk again.'

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