An Iraeli driver says that it was a “miracle” he escaped when his car was pulled into a sinkhole in the central city of Hod Hasharon, Times of Israel reports. Police said in a statement that there were no injuries and the sinkhole was the “result of a malfunction in the underground water infrastructure.”
The car’s driver, 70-year-old Chaim Boaron, told Ynet that the whole incident happened very fast. “I was driving the car when I saw a small hole around half a meter [approximately 20 inches] but I got scared because there was flooding. Within a second, the car sank,” he said. “Everything happened in an instant. The front wheels fell into the sinkhole and I ran out of the car. If I hadn’t, I would be inside [the sinkhole] now,” he said.
“I can’t believe what a huge miracle happened to me, a real miracle,” he said. “My life was miraculously saved, in an instant. I am really lucky.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
Are they cleaning up the underground tunnels there that caused a sinkhole?