Highway potholes puncture tyres after Victoria's latest bout of rain
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Karen Ester used her pink umbrella to warn other motorists about a pothole while she waited for the RACV. ( ABC News: Lily Kristanto )
More drivers have copped costly damage from potholes that have opened up along Victorian highways during today's rain.
One driver used her pink umbrella to warn oncoming motorists of a large sharp-edged pothole that blew her tyre in Gippsland.
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A woman has stood in the rain along a busy Victorian highway to warn more than 50 drivers of a large pothole that took out her tyre, and damaged at least five other cars in Gippsland this morning.
Large sharp-edged potholes have opened up along Victorian roads and highways after heavy rain across the state since Thursday night.
At Rosedale, Karen Ester was on her way to Leongatha on the Princes Highway, when she heard a loud bang after hitting a pothole filled with water.
"I couldn't avoid it without trying to cause a crash into somebody else," she said.
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