Little did Miss Pamela Knox know that she was going to end
up in a giant sink hole in a road she knew so well when she was leaving her
home on Wednesday morning.
The giant hole suddenly appeared on the road beneath Pamela
in Toledo, North West Ohio, throwing her 10-feet deep into the ground.
Although she didn't appear hurt, she was shaken up by the
freak incident. When emergency services arrived she then had to climb out from
the hole using a ladder.
Toledo police Sgt. Joe Heffernan says a water main break
beneath the road may have caused the sinkhole on Wednesday.
Sgt Heffernan says Knox saw the vehicle in front of her
start to slip into the hole but managed to drive beyond it.
However, Knox couldn't avoid it being swallowed up by it, he
said. Once rescued she was taken to a hospital as a precaution
Officials used a crane to pull the car from the hole.
Repairs to the road are expected to take days.
Sink holes are caused by the dissolution of soluble bedrock
and the frequency and likelihood of such changes occurring depends on a number
of natural factors like the type of rock present and the weather conditions in
the area.
They often occur after heavy rain and floods, or following
earthquakes, and can open up suddenly without any warning.
One of the largest sinkholes in the U.S. is in rural
Louisiana, a vast and growing hole which last year was recorded to be 526-feet
wide.
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