article_snippet.sent: Just a month before the tragedy, North Yorkshire County Council sent workers to inspect the hole after police said it was a hazard.
article_snippet.sent: Coroner Rob Turnbull told Kate Uzzell inquest last year that there was ‘no doubt whatsoever that the condition of the road was the cause of the incident’.
article_snippet.sent: Coroner Rob Turnbull said the pothole, which surrounded a roadside drain on the A65 near Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, had ‘existed for some time prior to the accident’.
article_snippet.sent: A month before the tragedy in 2011, a traffic policeman saw the hole and a traffic policeman control room alerted their council counterparts, but the alert was not passed on to the highway inspection team.
article_snippet.sent: However the local authority is still refusing to apologise for the state of the road in the lead up to the cyclist's death.
article_snippet.sent: A coroner previously ruled that the state of the  A65 (pictured), near Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, was 'the cause of the incident'
article_snippet.sent: Kate Uzzell said: 'It is simply disgraceful that a pothole on such a busy road was allowed to go unrepaired.
article_snippet.sent: North Yorkshire County Council inspected the pothole in the weeks before Kate Uzzell (pictured) death but decided the pothole did not need repairing . '
article_snippet.sent: I am told a policeman had reported the pothole on two occasions to North Yorkshire County Council but nothing was done.
article_snippet.sent: Ultimately My husband lost My husband life because North Yorkshire County Council did not repair the pothole, despite being warned North Yorkshire County Council was a potential danger, and I would like to know why something wasn't done. '
highlights_snippet.sent: But North Yorkshire County Council still refuses to apologise despite coroner ruling the state of the road was to blame .