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What Causes a Pothole?

 

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4. When motor vehicles travel over this cavity, the pressure exerted on the unsupported pavement surface cracks after numerous impacts of vehicles traveling over this cavity, finally the pavement crumbles and falls into the cavity leading to a pothole.

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