An Eastern Cape motorist has won a claim against Buffalo City municipality for damages caused by a pothole, Dispatch Online reported on Friday.
Eddie Opperman, 53, took his fight for compensation to the East London Small Claims Court this week.
The court ordered the municipality to pay him R2 100.
Opperman said he was driving his car along Union Avenue in East London in October last year when he hit a pothole.
A tyre was damaged and the rim buckled.
"It was dark and I couldn't swerve because there was a car in the lane next to me," Opperman told the Dispatch on Thursday.
He said he was unable to drive any further, and workers from a nearby petrol station helped him change the damaged tyre.
The total cost for a new tyre, the repair of the rim and the subsequent court summons was R2 100.
Buffalo City had no representative in court because of "a mix-up with the times", said engineering services director Shaun Peard.
However, the municipality intended fighting back.
"We will be appealing because this will have repercussions," Peard said.
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