![Handout shows a man looking at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A man looks at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sinkhole-pitssburgh.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
By Dan Kedmey
A Pittsburgh woman escaped her car in the nick of time, eyewitnesses said, after a massive parking lot sinkhole opened up beneath the car and it sunk into a water-filled pit. Photos showed the back of the sedan sunken nearly up to its front wheels in a hole roughly three times the car’s width.
The woman reportedly escaped through the passenger window and was listed in good condition.
“I felt a thunk,” the car’s owner, Natalie Huddleston, told KDKA news, “and all of a sudden I was tilted and I felt movement, I was swaying, I kept drifting back and realized I was stuck in this hole.”
[KDKA]
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