‘This isn’t right.’ Driver realizes puddle is something much worse, Texas photos show
_fitted.png "A Texas man drove his SUV over what he thought was a puddle, then quickly found out it was a sinkhole.")
A Texas man was forced to scramble out of his SUV to safety after a pothole he drove over turned out to be much, much deeper.
John King, of Galveston, was on his way home from the grocery store when he drove into what he thought was a shallow puddle in the road, The Daily News reported. But moments later, his Volkswagen started to sink.
“When I turned left, my car just went down,” King told the newspaper. “I knew something was wrong. I tried to open my door and I didn’t realize how far the car was in the ground. Mud started to pour in and I said, ‘Woah, this is definitely not right.’”
The front end of King’s vehicle was swallowed up by the sinkhole, video by KTRK shows.
King escaped the incident uninjured, but lost his groceries, the paper reported.
Unable to open the door, King rolled down a window and crawled out, he told KHOU.
King, who works as a 911 dispatcher, said he normally takes an alternative route home, but he went a different way in order to avoid construction.
“If you ever wanted to see an example of someone using every cuss word in the book in one long run-on sentence, that was yesterday,” King told the TV station.
After removing the SUV from the hole, workers drained out the water and began investigating, the outlet reported. A water main break is the suspected cause.
This story was originally published May 25, 2023 at 11:25 AM with the headline "‘This isn’t right.’ Driver realizes puddle is something much worse, Texas photos show."