--- title: Massive Sinkhole Swallows Car Whole in Pittsburgh Parking Lot description: A Pittsburgh woman escaped her car in the nick of time, eyewitnesses said, after a massive parking lot sinkhole opened up beneath the wheels and sunk the car into a water-filled pit. canonical: https://time.com/3107579/sinkhole-car/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-13T14:57:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:38:39.392Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Massive Sinkhole Swallows Car Whole in Pittsburgh Parking Lot og:description: A Pittsburgh woman escaped her car in the nick of time, eyewitnesses said, after a massive parking lot sinkhole opened up beneath the wheels and sunk the car into a water-filled pit. og:url: https://time.com/3107579/sinkhole-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt672a50781d1cf44e/69869f5b361760e04690d6fd/sinkhole-pitssburgh.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: A man looks at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Massive Sinkhole Swallows Car Whole in Pittsburgh Parking Lot twitter:description: A Pittsburgh woman escaped her car in the nick of time, eyewitnesses said, after a massive parking lot sinkhole opened up beneath the wheels and sunk the car into a water-filled pit. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt672a50781d1cf44e/69869f5b361760e04690d6fd/sinkhole-pitssburgh.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Hospitalized After Massive Sinkhole Swallows Car Whole  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 13, 2014 2:57 PM CUT  A man looks at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, 2014. A man looks at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, 2014.Roxanne Oglesby—Reuters  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 13, 2014 2:57 PM CUT 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](http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/sinkhole-swallows-car-in-ross-township/ "undefined") 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.” \[[_KDKA_](http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/sinkhole-swallows-car-in-ross-township/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3107579/sinkhole-car/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3107579/sinkhole-car/"},"headline":"Woman Hospitalized After Massive Sinkhole Swallows Car Whole","datePublished":"2014-08-13T14:57:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:38:39.392Z","description":"\"I felt a thunk\"","url":"https://time.com/3107579/sinkhole-car/","keywords":["nature","Pennsylvania","pittsburgh"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt672a50781d1cf44e/69869f5b361760e04690d6fd/sinkhole-pitssburgh.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt672a50781d1cf44e/69869f5b361760e04690d6fd/sinkhole-pitssburgh.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A man looks at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, 2014.","caption":"A man looks at a car as it falls into a sinkhole on McKnight Road in Ross Township of Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, 2014.","creditText":"Roxanne Oglesby—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nature/","name":"nature"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3107579/sinkhole-car/","name":"Woman Hospitalized After Massive Sinkhole Swallows Car Whole"}}]}] ```