Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander’s car has had to be taken off the road after hitting a huge pothole in Oxfordshire. The Mini Cooper had to be towed away after hitting a “crater worthy of the Moon”, according to The Sun newspaper.
Her car struck the gaping fissure late at night as she drove back from a Labour fundraiser.
Last night Ms Alexander told The Sun that too many drivers are affected by the crisis, but blamed local councils, including the Lib Dem-run authority where her accident happened.
Pictures in the media showed her stricken car being hoisted on to an AA recovery truck on the B4437 outside Burford in Oxfordshire.
Ms Alexander, who was driving back to her Swindon South constituency at the time, said:
“I joked to my husband that I thought that the astronauts on Artemis II might have seen a similar-size crater when they were slingshotting around the Moon last week.”
She said her ordeal had brought “added expense and inconvenience”, but admitted: “I think that’s the experience of far too many people in the country at the moment.”
Ms Alexander said it highlighted why she made it “my absolute priority to secure decent investment in our roads” when she took the government job in November 2024.
The bill to fix Britain’s roads has now hit a record £18.6billion.
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