Sinkhole opens up and swallows car parked on street
This is definitely not how you expect to find your car after leaving it parked safely!
Jordan Westerberg, 25, left his white Toyota Camry parked on St. Louis Street and was shocked to find it swallowed by a sinkhole when he came back from the gym.
Greg Prater, who is a city and traffic inspector, stated in an interview that the sinkhole was caused by an eight-inch water main that had broken underneath the street, causing large-scale erosion to take place.
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Curtis Skouby, who is the city’s water commissioner, stated in the same interview that it is not clear when the main broke and that they were working on finding the cause of the sinkhole.
The car was lifted back to the surface by trucks.
According to reports, no one was injured. However, the basement of a railway exchange building was flooded with water.