Impressive! : So the earth swallowed a car in seconds | the Chronicle

The earth has swallowed him up! Cameras recorded as a car slowly sank into the ground. The causes? The bad works of man, in the literal sense. At India, in a residential complex , it seems that the need to a parking It was more urgent than thinking about doing it right and these were the impressive consequences.

The parking lot in this Bombay suburb, it would have been built on a well covered with reinforced concrete . For the earth to give in to the weight of a car, it was only a matter of seconds, and it did.

This improvised space built on an old well, would not last long and even less if the intense rains that the city has suffered for days bring his own.

This space would have been adapted by the inhabitants of the place be able to leave parked cars there but by covering it with reinforced concrete, the “asphalt” weakened with water and gave way.

It is this Sunday morning that a car that was parked completely sank in seconds and a large hole filled with water.

The good news is that there was no one inside the vehicle when it fell, as confirmed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the city’s civic body. Brihanmumbai ( BMC ), civic body of the city.

So the earth swallowed a car in seconds in India