FEBRUARY
Transport Scotland admitted to struggling to keep up with pothole repairs on the A83, amid record garage callouts for burst tyres in January and February.
In February, heavily pregnant Kirsty McDougall from Tarbert was forced to walk along the road in the dark aTher her car hit a pothole on the A83 heading for Lochgilphead, bursting a tyre and cracking an alloy wheel. Management firm BEAR Scotland said at the time: