The '300 pothole' pockmarked road where taxi refuses to pick up boy who now 'can't get to school'
A desperate mum claims a taxi driver refused to use a road with 300 potholes to take her son to school.
Sionedd Hughes says the road has many huge potholes but "hundreds" more smaller ones after it became a "rabbit run" for commuters.
Now she is calling on Wrexham Council to step in and carry out long-term repairs.
Mrs Hughes and her husband Tony live on an upland farm with 100-head of Continental, Aberdeen Angus and other breeds of cattle near this neglected road called The Circle at Glyn Train, Wrexham.
Its hazardous surface has caused problems for some time but the issues came to a head on Monday.
She said: "We're down to driving at 5mph (along The Circle road). We cannot go any faster. Even at that speed we will break springs on vehicles.
"My son is collected by a school taxi to get him to the bus in Chirk to take him to Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen.
"Yesterday, after he had been collected at 7.15am I received a message from him, that the taxi driver would no longer collect him from the end of the drive, because of the state of the council pot holes.
"He would have to walk three quarters of a mile to meet the taxi instead."
She added: "Now during the summer, this may work, but the meeting point had no shelter for bad weather, and, at an altitude of 1,100ft, there is usually a chill in the air and snow and rain are more common than on lower ground.
"A 7am collection would mean walking in non-street light conditions in the darker months. Need I go on?
"The risks are endless, just because Wrexham CBC are unwilling to maintain a road that services both residents and businesses, but also was a cut through for Ceiriog Valley residents down to Weston Rhyn and onto the A5."
Mrs Hughes claims the contracted taxi firm deem the road "unnavigable" because of damage to their vehicles.
She added: "I am unwilling to use my vehicle for the very same reasons. So unfortunately my son cannot get to school. So the basic human right of a school education has been denied to him."
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