Almost £5000 has been shelled out by Stirling Council in the last 18 months for damage to motors caused by potholes.
Between June 2018 and December last year, the council paid out £4700 in compensation to drivers whose vehicles were damaged by road defects.
The figure was obtained by the Observer through a Freedom of Information request.
Over the same period, the council received 166 claims from drivers, with 21 of those claims being successful to date.
In May 2018, the Observer reported how, between 2007 and 2017, a total of £66,147.57 was paid to claimants.
A Stirling Council spokesperson said: “Each claim the council receives is considered on an individual basis and goes through the appropriate channels, with liability assessed in accordance with appropriate legislation.
“We have continually invested increasing sums year-on-year to maintain and improve more than 1000km of roads across the Stirling Council area, with a record £5.3 million allocated to roads infrastructure during 2019/20.
“We would ask members of the public who spot a road defect to report the matter via our website at https://my.stirling.gov.uk/forms and our teams will respond.”
In December last year, Mid Scotland and Fife Tory MSP Dean Lockhart called for more support to get Stirling’s road network in better shape.
The MSP said he had received complaints from constituents regarding the state of Stirling’s roads. In Holyrood, he asked the Local Government Cabinet Secretary Aileen Campbell, what assistance the Scottish Government will be providing to Stirling Council to assist with the additional programme of works needed to address the issue.
Mr Lockhart this week said: “The state of Stirling’s roads is one of the biggest issues that residents get in touch with me about but their condition never gets any better as we can see from the council’s official reports.
“Unfortunately the number of claims being submitted demonstrate this. Given how hard it is to get a claim agreed by the council, it’s telling that so many were approved. More direct funding from the Scottish Government would greatly help but they continue to ignore the issue.”
