I SPEND my days swerving to avoid them or making sharp brake applications. I spend my nights with the car crashing through them, wrecking tyres and suspension systems.

In wet weather you can't see them at all, what it must be like for cyclists or bikers I can only imagine. Then I arrive back home to a bill from Wyre Forest/Worcestershire for £1,544, for a year's council tax.

Potholes, sunken drain covers, disintegrating road surfaces and stones, and debris acting like missiles that shatter windscreens and pose a serious risk to pedestrians – this is the whole utter disgrace of the Worcestershire road network of 2014. Road safety? What a joke.

Both councils employ trading standards officers, whose job it is to root out the unscrupulous or criminal elements, who charge for shoddy work, or worse still, for doing no work at all. I wonder if it ever occurs to these officers to look at the activities, or inactivities, of their own employers?

I rather think not.

MICHAEL DUNN Sandbourne Drive, Bewdley