Men’s lucky escape after car tumbles into sinkhole in China

THESE guys will never complain about running into a pothole again, after their car was almost swallowed up by a sudden sinkhole.

Two men have a lucky escape after a sinkhole opens up in China.

THESE guys will never complain about running into a pothole again, after their car was almost swallowed up by a sudden sinkhole.

Two men in China had the ultimate lucky escape after a sinkhole opened up in front of them.

The driver and passenger were travelling on a busy junction in Jinjiang City in China’s eastern Fujian province when the hole appeared.

But fortunately for them, they managed to stop just in time before the car flipped over and fell in.

The hole was caused by the collapse of sand beneath the road’s surface about half an hour before the sinkhole appeared, when a truck ran over the spot, causing the tarmac to collapse, The Independent reported.

The men were uninjured and the hole is now being repaired.

The hole opened up out of nowhere.

They wouldn’t be the first ones to have such a lucky escape.

Just last week, a woman in Melbourne was rescued from a three metre deep sinkhole that opened up in her backyard.

The 45-year-old was hanging out her washing when the ground swallowed her up.

She had been at the bottom of the hole for around an hour before neighbours heard her cries for help.

Both cases were lucky compared to a monster sinkhole which opened up in the middle of a main road near the breakaway Crimean capital of Simferopol in September, killing six people.

Rescue workers said the massive hole, which was at least six metres deep had suddenly appeared in the middle of the road in front of the car.