During storms with some heavy rain in California on Monday evening in Chatsworth, a neighborhood of metropolitan Los Angeles, a huge hole in the ground opened up on a street and “swallowed” two cars driving there. According to the local fire service, the opening – a so-called sinkhole – is about five meters deep.
According to broadcaster CBS Los Angeles, the hole was created around 7:20 p.m. on Iverson Road in the Chatsworth neighborhood. When the earth opened up, first a car fell into the sinkhole and a little later a pickup truck. The two occupants of the latter were able to get out of the vehicle unharmed before the fire brigade arrived.
Two women were slightly injured
The occupants of the car, a woman and a young girl, were trapped, had to be freed from the car by the fire brigade and taken out of the five-metre-deep pit via ladders. According to CBS Los Angeles, they suffered minor injuries.
Local authorities told the broadcaster that the sinkhole, which was five meters deep on Monday night, grew larger overnight. By Tuesday night, the length of the hole had “grown to 40 feet (almost 14 metres, note)” and the roadway was completely divided, a spokesperson told the broadcaster.
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Source: Krone
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