UPDATE (3/21/22): A resident emailed me about an injury he sustained by hitting an unmarked pothole on Twining Bridge Rd. "Hi John.  I got in a serious bike accident on Twining Bridge Road on the way to Tyler Park.  A pothole was hidden in shade and I hit it, snapped the front bar stem, and flew over the handlebars.  I suffered a hamstring injury along with various scrapes and cuts, but it could have been a lot worse.  There should have been a cone on the pothole, or at least spray painted around it to make it more visible to the cyclist."

UPDATE (3/24/23): I gave the resident the phone number to call and he responded a few days later: "I left a message on the number you gave me last week yesterday morning, and all the potholes on Twining Bridge road were at least circled in spray paint, and the one that caused my bike crash was circled, and filled.  Local government doing good work!!"

Could it be possible that the tire was damaged hitting one of those potholes on Durham road that a resident recently complained about at the 8 June 2022 BOS meeting?

NOTE: Durham Rd is a STATE road maintained by PennDOT, NOT Newtown Township. To report any problem with state roads, please visit the PennDOT Customer Care Center.

The resident sent me the following in an email prior to the meeting:

"I'm sure you have noticed the bad and unsafe condition of Durham Rd from the Village to Stoopville Rd.  The enormous amount of pot holes and actual crumbling of the pavement is in the worst condition ever.  I was informed back in 2013 by State Senator Santarsiero and State Congressman Chuck McIlhinery that Durham Rd was on the list to be repaved within 3 years and it's still not done.  At this unsafe point, we have to at least fix the pot holes and crumbling pavements before we have serious accidents.  I know of two people who have had tire blowouts on Durham road."

These potholes are not only unsafe for drivers who hit them, but for other drivers when they may lead to incidents like the one in this report.

UPDATE (6/16/22): Newtown Twp PW Director, Joe Schiavoni, informed me that "PennDOT was actually filling potholes yesterday along Durham Rd corridor, so while the road still needs to be repaved in my opinion the potholes have been filled."