“I never saw such a big hole”: the street ‘swallowed’ a truck in New York; unusual video

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“I have never seen such a big hole in my life,” said Vanessa L. Gibson, president of the Bronx (NYC), reacting to the unusual news that broken asphalt had swallowed a truck in her county, leaving 75 users without water service.

Happened Monday night after heavy rains hit the city. “A sinkhole appeared in the Bronx, 58 feet long, 15 feet wide, and 20 feet deep, that engulfed a parked van and damaged a water main as heavy rains and high winds battered the city,” he summarized. The New York Times.

The New York police cordoned off the area around the hole in Radcliff Avenue, in the Morris Park neighborhood, while pieces of the street continued to fall slowly making the hole bigger, in front of the stunned gaze of the people, he reported Pix11.

An unusual video captured the moment of the van slowly sinking, no occupants. Miraculously no one was injured in the vicinity either.

In the case of the truck, parts of the road first collapsed under one of the rear wheels. The entire van then fell into the hole near the intersection of Radcliff and Pierce Avenue.

Car alarms went off when the truck bottomed out in the hole. A car parked nearby also appeared to be in danger of falling into the hole, FDNY officials said.

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) went to the scene to investigate, but did not confirm whether the hole was caused by Monday’s big storm, which started around the same time as the sinking, he said. CBS2. Authorities were also investigating whether the incident was connected to a sinkhole that opened on the same block nearly a year ago.

Tony Papadodoulos, owner of the sunken truck, declared his relief that it was “alive”. “I’m fine. Losing the truck… (it’s nothing). It is life,” he said.

In a similar case, a vehicle was literally swallowed by the earth, after a hole was opened in the asphalt in Queens (NYC), Thanksgiving morning 2020. And in June of that year, a parked truck was swallowed by a huge hole which opened in East Village de Manhattan.