Residents Disturbed by Loud 'Gunshot' Noises from Vehicles Over Loose Manhole Cover 🚧

Fed-up residents have told how they are being kept awake all night by cars driving over a loose manhole cover which makes a sound like 'gunshots.'<br /><br />The noisey cover in a street in Maidstone, Kent, has been sounding off for over a week now, with those living nearby saying this isn’t the first time it has broken.<br /><br />In a short video clip of the road, the manhole cover is driven over - producing the clattering noise - five times in just 18 seconds. <br /><br />Helen Ralph has been living next to the road for the past 15 years and says the constant noise of lorries driving over the drain keeps her up at night. <br /><br />“We don’t get a good night's sleep because I’m right near the main road and I hear everything," the retired 58-year-old said. <br /><br />“I hear every car, every lorry that goes up the road and that drain going donk, donk, donk, all night long, so you can imagine you can’t get to sleep.<br /><br />“It sounds like a gun going off, but it’s not the first time, that drain has been like that before.”<br /><br />Kent County Council has said it is aware of the issue and is speaking to the utility company responsible for the manhole cover to be repaired. <br /><br />But Ms Ralph says this is the third time the same drain has had issues.