A number of potholes blamed for causing "near miss accidents" with children have not yet been fixed.

Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for Adur and Worthing, said concerned parents had contacted him about the state of Kingston Lane, outside Shoreham Academy in Shoreham.

He said that cars had been hitting the potholes which had caused the lights to dip and children to mistake this for the motorists letting them cross.

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The MP said: "Outside Shoreham Academy the state of the roads is really bad.

"Some parents came to see me the other day because when cars have their headlights on, they come along, bounce up and down on the potholes and people think they are flashing their lights to let them go when they're not, so we've had some near-miss accidents.

"The state of the potholes here is really bad so I've messaged the county council about it."

At the time, the West Sussex County Council said it had responded to reports of the potholes made by the MP and had put an order in for them to be fixed by April 19.

The council has since confirmed that the exact potholes reported to them had been repaired, however several new potholes around these reported ones are still awaiting work.

The council said these repairs will be made "soon" and that works on Kingston Lane as a whole to improve the condition of the road is "scheduled for summer".

The exact date for this work has not yet been confirmed.

A West Sussex County Council spokesman said: “Some potholes on Kingston Lane which were reported to us in March have been repaired.

"Unfortunately, our scheduled inspection of the entire road came after these repairs were made and we found more potholes which we were not aware of that also needed to be repaired.

“Due to the number of reports of potholes we receive and the way we must prioritise our repairs, our contractors are only able to repair those scheduled in and cannot inspect the whole road on each visit.

“Safety repairs will be made to these potholes soon and larger scale patching work on Kingston Lane is scheduled for the summer to address the worst affected areas.”