Even though some trucks are pretty big and usually carry some heavy loads, you’d believe the tarmac was designed to hold them. That is probably the case for most of the roads out there. Unfortunately for this truck driver from Russia, the road just couldn’t hold the workhorse anymore so the driver found himself literally being swallowed by a huge hole.
Call it bad luck or bad pluming, but a normal day at work should definitely not scare the life out of you. Luckily, the man later got out of the vehicle in one piece and nobody else was injured. Cement trucks can get quite heavy after all, with some reaching even 66,000 pounds (30,000 kg).
To be completely honest with you, these accidents occur quite often all over the world and they usually are come from a old pipe that brakes and that slowly forms a huge sinkhole underneath the asphalt.
Take the BMW X1 nearly swallowed by a sinkhole in Toronto. A sinkhole started forming just in front of a driveway outside a condominium townhouse in the Canadian city, almost eating up at the BMW before the owner could do anything about it. Fortunately, the owner managed to safely remove the car from the gaping hole that was seemingly caused by a water main break.
The creepiest sinkhole that probably the entire world heard of is the one that turned the Corvette Museum upside-down. A ginormous hole swallowed up eight historic Corvettes back in February. Authorities recently decided it will be repaired, with the reconstruction to begin on the 10th of November. With repair costs estimated at around $3.2 million, that's quite a big mess, right?
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