Thursday, April 18, 2013

Chicago Sinkhole Hospitalizes Man; Traps Three Vehicles

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A man is in the hospital after a sinkhole engulfed him and his pickup truck as well as two other vehicles on Thursday.


Merko Krivokuca was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital after the hole opened up in the road and swallowed his vehicle.


The 20-40 foot hole appeared early in the morning on Chicago’s South Side.



Spokesman Tom LaPorte for Chicago’s Water Department says that the sinkhole opened after a nearly one hundred-year-old water main broke.

LaPorte also says that recent rain could have aided in the creation of the sinkhole.


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