A written-off fire service van was among 171 emergency service vehicles damaged in pothole-related accidents since 2015, records show.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said the van was driving round a corner when it "hit a bump in the road awkwardly and the vehicle veered into the other carriageway and collided with a pick up van travelling in the other direction" in 2017.

It is not known if anybody was injured in the collision.

Other incidents included damage to wheels and bumpers, broken springs and punctured tyres. The details were released following Freedom of Information requests to all UK police forces, fire services and ambulance trusts.

Ten ambulance trusts, 45 fire services and 32 police forces had responded at the time of publication.

Ten police forces and six fire services had records of damage totalling around £70,000.

The police forces are Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dyfed-Powys, Hampshire, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, North Wales, South Wales and Police Scotland.

The fire services are Devon and Somerset, Lancashire, London Fire Brigade, Mid and West Wales, Northumberland and Oxfordshire.

No ambulance trust had records of damage.

Some agencies said they did not hold information, others recorded no damage and six police forces stated it would take too long to go through records.

All UK police forces, fire services and ambulance trusts were asked about the cost of pothole damage to emergency vehicles from 2015 until 2018 to date.

Here are details of the pothole damage received through Freedom of Information requests:

Damage recorded:

- Cheshire Police, 23 vehicles damaged. Three in 2015 (£709.87), 14 in 2016 (£8,090.86), six in 2017 (£5,422.82).

- Derbyshire Police, nine cars damaged. Four in 2015 (£760.13), two in 2016 (£644.44), one in 2017 (£71.18), two in 2018 (£765.64).

- Dyfed-Powys Police, one patrol car damaged in 2017 (£81.08). Vehicle grounded on pothole on private road causing damage to sill covers.

- Hampshire Police, 45 vehicles damaged. Ten in 2015 (£3,099.99), 16 in 2016 (£6,806.24), 14 in 2017 (£7,570.74), five in 2018 (£2,192.34).

- Kent Police, 19 vehicles damaged. Five in 2015 (£2,004), eight in 2016 (£4,558), five in 2017 (£4,038), one in 2018 (£854). Vehicles include patrol cars, training vehicles, motorbikes, specialist vehicles.

- Norfolk and Suffolk Police, 17 vehicles damaged. Two in 2015 (£305.45), two in 2016 (£216.13), three in 2017 (£1,428.23), 10 in 2018 (£2,191.37).

- North Wales Police, one vehicle damaged in 2015 (£89.92). Ford Transit Connect patrol, punctured tyre.

- Police Scotland, 14 cars damaged. Three in 2015 (£777.56), five in 2016 (£1,328.78), two in 2017 (£6,972.70), four in 2018 (£717.96).

- South Wales Police, 28 vehicles damaged. Seven in 2015 (£1,673.86), 15 in 2016 (£708.62), five in 2017 (£3,517.95), one in 2018 (no cost stated).

- Devon and Somerset Fire Service, six vehicles damaged. Two in 2016. A car suffered scuffs and slight chips to its front spoiler along an unmade road and was not repaired. A van damaged its wing mirror when another vehicle swerved to avoid a pothole (£45.38). Four in 2017. A fire engine damaged its stability jack after its rear wheels went into a pothole at low speed (cost unknown). A van was written off as it was driving around a corner, hit a bump in the road awkwardly and veered into the other carriageway and collided with a pick-up van travelling in the opposite direction. A fire engine sustained damage when its front wheel hit a pothole on a very narrow street (cost unknown). A fire engine from Glastonbury station dropped into a pothole at a farmyard opening, causing it to snag on the gate and damage a locker hanger (£101.40).

- Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, one car damaged in 2018 (£203). Broken spring.

- London Fire Brigade, one fire engine damaged in 2018 (cost unknown). Damage to bumper and step into driver compartment.

- Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, three vehicles damaged. One in 2015 (£37.93), one in 2016 (£244.14), one in 2018 (no cost).

- Northumberland Fire Service, one flexible duty officer car damaged in 2018 (£250).

- Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, one vehicle damaged in 2017 (£319.68). Flexible duty officer response car, damage to front wheel and tyre.

No damage recorded:

- Cambridgeshire Police; Durham Police.

- Bedfordshire Fire Service; Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service; Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service; Cheshire Fire Service; Cleveland Fire Brigade; Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service; Cumbria Fire Service; Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service; Durham and Darlington Fire Service; East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service; Essex Fire Service; Gloucestershire Fire Service; Greater Manchester Fire Service; Hertfordshire Fire Service; Humberside Fire and Rescue Service; Isle of Wight Fire Service; Jersey Fire Service; Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service; Mersey Fire Service; Norfolk Fire Service; Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service; North Wales Fire and Rescue Service; North Yorkshire Fire Service; Nottinghamshire Fire Service; Shropshire Fire Service; Staffordshire Fire Service; Suffolk Fire Service; Surrey Fire and Rescue Service; Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service; West Midlands Fire Service.

- East of England Ambulance Service (did not record information until April 2018. No damage recorded since) North West Ambulance Service.

No information held:

- Bedfordshire Police; Cleveland Police; Devon and Cornwall Police; Dorset Police; Gloucestershire Police; Greater Manchester Police; Humberside Police; Lancashire Police; Leicestershire Police; Lincolnshire Police; Merseyside Police; South Yorkshire Police; Staffordshire Police; West Mercia and Warwickshire Police.

- Avon Fire and Rescue Service; Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service; Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service; Kent Fire and Rescue Service; Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (does not hold information, but an engineer recalls an incident in February 2018 where an officer in a rapid response vehicle hit a pothole and damaged both rims and tyres on the nearside, costing £581.17); South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue; Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service; West Sussex Fire Service; West Yorkshire Fire Service.

- East Midlands Ambulance Service; London Ambulance Service; North East Ambulance Service; South Central Ambulance Service; South East Coast Ambulance Service; South West Ambulance Service; West Midlands Ambulance Service; Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

Request refused as it would take too long to access information and exceed the cost limit for an FOI request:

- Avon and Somerset Police; City of London Police; Northumbria Police; Thames Valley Police; West Midlands Police; West Yorkshire Police