Astounding moment Honda hatchback is swallowed by a giant sinkhole after a burst water pipe flooded the road outside a busy shopping centre
- The sinkhole appeared in Perth suburb of Bennett Springs in WA on Thursday
- A white Honda hatchback fell nose-first into the sinkhole and was submerged
- The back of the car lifted from the road and the rear wheels spun in the air
This is the dramatic moment a driver of a white Honda hatchback drove into a huge sinkhole.
The hole appeared outside a shopping centre in Bennet Springs, in Perth, on Thursday night after a burst water main flooded the street.
The hatchback plunged nose-first into the hole in the city’s north-east before the front of the vehicle became completely submerged.
The back of the car lifted from the road and the rear wheels spun in the air.
The sinkhole appeared outside a shopping centre in the Perth suburb of Bennett Springs in Western Australia on Thursday night
The car fell deeper into the hole as the dirty water continued to spurt out of the broken pipe.
Police closed off the road and diverted traffic away from the sinkhole.
A tow truck arrived and managed to successfully pull the car out of the sinkhole and back onto the road.
The driver of the car was uninjured.
The City of Swan council has been contacted for comment.
The hatchback plunged nose-first into the hole in the city’s north-east and completely submerged the front of the vehicle
The back of the car lifted from the road and the rear wheels spun in the air
This comes after another sinkhole in Perth appeared at Ascot’s Gould Reserve in June.
The one-metre cavern was discovered by a local who was walking his dog who believed the hole lead towards a nearby road.
It is believed to have been caused by an old aluminium drainage pipe that deteriorated.
Sinkholes appear during intense rainstorms or floods or from long-term leakage caused by sewer and storm-water pipes.