N.Y. Sinkhole Swallows SUV

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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.

 

see, even god wants suvs buried under grounds lol

 

pssh, no pictures?

 

Here's the best I can do:

 

lol nice pics

 

That's like a scene from ghostbusters or war of the worlds!