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Massive sinkhole swallows car containing family of four

Mike Gallagher

May 31, 2014 - 08:13

May 31, 2014 - 08:18

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Massive sinkhole swallows car containing family of four

Well that’s one way to stop (Picture: AP)

Well that’s one way to enforce a stop sign.

A family in Indiana got a bit of a shock on Friday afteoon when the car they were travelling in collapsed into a sinkhole.

The vehicle had come to a halt at a junction in Evansville, Indiana, when a sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath them.

Thankfully the incident looks a lot worse that it actually was.

And despite the fact that it resembles a scene from a disaster movie, everyone managed to escape without injury.

Evansville Policemen along with Chris Walsh, leftm look at a car that fell into a sink hole after a water main broke on Oregon St. at Main St. in Evansville, Ind. on Friday, May 30, 2014. The car's owner said he, his girlfriend and two children were in the car at the time. All got out safely from a passenger side door. (AP Photo/The Evansville Courier & Press, Kevin Swank)

Not something you see every day (Picture: AP)

Evansville director of utilities Allen Mount told local TV station KFVS12 that the sinkhole was most probably caused by the city’s 70-year-old brick sewer line.

Local resident Cristina Romine said she’d noticed that the road felt odd in the days leading up to the incident, adding: ‘It felt soft to us, but we didn’t think it would be a sinkhole.’

A wrecker lifts a car that fell into a hole after a water main broke on Oregon St. at Main St. in Evansville, Ind. on Friday, May 30, 2014. The car's owner said he, his girlfriend and two children were in the car at the time. All got out safely from a passenger side door. (AP Photo/The Evansville Courier & Press, Kevin Swank)