Residents say council ignored pleas to fix road which slopes in both directions and floods frequently

Residents in the area where an elderly couple died after their car drove into a flooded road said they had been complaining to the council to fix and prevent the recurrent problem for years.

Elaine and Philip Marco, who were 75 and 77, were found inside a submerged black Mercedes on Queens Drive between North Mossley Hill road and Dovedale road on Saturday evening. Police were alerted at 9:20pm.

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