They’re seemingly everywhere along Bay Area roads. Potholes, many of them made worse by this week’s stormy weather, wrecking havoc on people’s cars.
“The wheel has a 10-inch crack in it,” said JL Chiemingo.
San Francisco resident JL Chiemingo tells us she was going to work Thursday when she drove over this massive pothole on 280 North near the 101 split.
The damage to her car, estimated to cost her well over $1,000.
Money JL says will place a financial strain on her family.
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“I feel like I literally did nothing wrong. I just was driving to work and there was no way to avoid that,” Chiemingo said.
JL tells us she’s not the only one who fell victim to that pothole either.
On Thursday morning, she said there were at least three other drivers who had to pull over after they ran over it as well.
At Juarez Tires and Brakes, it was a similar story.
“We had taken seven cars in the day for so many potholes in the city,” said Joel Juarez.