Daily Torygraph
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A biker died after hitting a pothole, an inquest has heard.
Father-of-two Andrew Freakley, 43, was thrown into an oncoming car after hitting a crater in the road on Sept 25 last year.
The mechanic and forklift truck operator was riding his Yamaha motorcycle to his home in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent on the 40mph Park Hall Road when the collision occurred.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council was aware of the pothole Freakley hit after an inspection on May 7 that year. It was flagged again after a second inspection on Sept 11 but was not deemed urgent and was only fixed 154 days later on October 8, after the incident.