Sinkhole Swallows SUV. Driver Treated for 'Shock'
03-27-2006, 10:13 AM
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Sinkhole Swallows SUV. Driver Treated for 'Shock'
N.Y. Sinkhole Swallows SUV
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...-Collapse.html
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 27, 2006
Filed at 10:51 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break.
The driver of the SUV escaped without serious injuries but was taken to a hospital for treatment of shock, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Conlon.
From street level, the vehicle was barely visible inside the 12-foot-wide hole Monday morning.
It was resting atop a gas main, and crews had to wait for the gas to be turned off before removing it, said Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection. Part of a subway line that runs beneath the Brooklyn street was also shut down.
The damage to the street was probably more extensive than was visible, since water leaking from the 8-inch main could have been washing away soil beneath the street for days, Michaels said.
''It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole,'' he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...-Collapse.html
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 27, 2006
Filed at 10:51 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break.
The driver of the SUV escaped without serious injuries but was taken to a hospital for treatment of shock, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Conlon.
From street level, the vehicle was barely visible inside the 12-foot-wide hole Monday morning.
It was resting atop a gas main, and crews had to wait for the gas to be turned off before removing it, said Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection. Part of a subway line that runs beneath the Brooklyn street was also shut down.
The damage to the street was probably more extensive than was visible, since water leaking from the 8-inch main could have been washing away soil beneath the street for days, Michaels said.
''It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole,'' he said.
03-31-2006, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by nzarnow
pssh, no pictures?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1774797 (hurry before ABC obsoletes it)
Plus I'll throw on a pick I stole from their webpage -
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