AN accident which killed a young Derby dad was caused by council workers failing to clear drains on the road, a coroner has ruled.
Steven Pamon, 26, lost control of his car when he swerved to avoid a pool of flood water on Acorn Way near his Oakwood home.
His car smashed into two trees, killing him instantly.
An inquest yesterday heard that 14 of 15 drains on the carriageway were blocked by mud and debris at the time.
And a representative from Derbyshire County Council admitted that inspectors did not check the drains physically but looked at them from a van driving past at 15mph.
Delivering a narrative verdict, coroner Dr Robert Hunter said the flooding "had resulted from inspections not being performed on a number of occasions, and the inspection system lacked the precision required to identify and rectify the problem".
The inquest at Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner's Court heard that it had been raining heavily on the morning of the accident and the road had flooded.
Simon Tilley, highways manager at Derbyshire County Council, told the inquest that he acknowledged the road had issues with floods and had done for 15 years.
He said the council had installed gullies along the road to help relieve the problem. However they had not been Manolo shoes as effective as it had been hoped. Mr Tilley also re- vealed that, despite receiving Met Office flood warnings, the council had no set flood policies. He said: "If we receive a call saying there could be a flood we will try to alleviate it but if we can't then we put warning signs up, but there is no proactive plan." When asked by the coroner how often the drains on Acorn Way were inspected, Mr Tilley said it was a monthly requirement. But he admitted inspections had not been carried out as regularly as they should have been in the year leading up to the accident.
Christian louboutin shoes "Sometimes we could not do it every month because of staff sickness," he said. Mr Tilley said the inspectors checked the drains from a distance while seated in a van driving down the road. PC David Harris, from Derbyshire Constabulary Investigations Unit, arrived at the accident within the hour and checked the drains later that day. "They were blocked with debris and had been for a length of time, resulting in standing water at a depth of 40mm," he said. PC Harris also said that in the past three years there had been 16 collisions on the same stretch of road, including one in the same spot, due to a flooded road. A motorist, who had driven down the road two hours be- drivfore the accident on November 14, told the inquest that the road flood went from "kerb to kerb" and was 20ft long.
Mark Nugent said: "I felt the car lift up and be pushed to the other side of the road. I couldn't see the water in advance because it was round a left bend. I saw no flood warnings. "This is a stretch of road I know very well. I often said todrivfore the accident on November 14, told the inquest that the road flood went from "kerb to kerb" and was 20ft long. Mark Nugent said: "I felt the car lift up and be pushed to the other side of the road. I couldn't see the water in advance because it was round a left bend. I saw no flood warnings. "This is a stretch of road I know very well. I often said toing to see her mum and noticed Acorn Way was closed. She said: "My mum told me what happened and I went straight to the scene." Dr Robert Hunter said the tyres on Mr Pamon's car had insufficient tread depth. He said: "I do not find that the insufficient tread depth would have
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