ATLANTA — AAA is warning drivers about the cost of repairs if you hit a pothole.
Drivers across the U.S. whose vehicles sustained damage and needed repair after hitting a pothole increased nearly 60% compared to last year, according to AAA.
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In March, Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray found that the state only paid for 400 pothole-related repairs despite receiving more than 1,200 claims.
Channel 2′s Tom Regan spoke with drivers on Friday afternoon who say their claims were denied after hitting the same pothole on I-285 near Camp Creek Pkwy.
“Once I saw that and saw that it wasn’t just me, I became even more angry,” one driver said. “It was something that they had to be aware of. They just hadn’t done anything about it.”
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The state told Regan that the Department of Transportation did not know about that pothole.
An open records request filed by Channel 2 Action News found that a third person reported it the days before.
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