News

Actions

Sinkhole swallows up car in downtown St. Louis; no injuries

Sinkhole swallows up car in downtown St. Louis; no injuries
Posted

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who scored what he thought was a prime parking spot in downtown St. Louis says he returned from a trip to the gym with his fiancee to find his car swallowed by a sinkhole.

Jordan Westerberg tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2tpTCZm ) that when the couple came back to his Toyota Camry shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday and didn't see it, they figured it had been towed.

Street workers gathered at the parking space was a tipoff something was amiss. That's when 25-year-old Westerberg found the vehicle in the gaping hole, about 20 feet deep and 8 to 10 feet across.

It isn't immediately clear what caused the collapse.

No injuries were reported.

,

Weather

Daily Forecast

View Hourly Forecast

Day

Conditions

HI / LO

Precip

Thursday

05/08/2025

Clear

-° / 63°

1%

Friday

05/09/2025

Clear

98° / 66°

0%

Saturday

05/10/2025

Partly Cloudy

101° / 66°

0%

Sunday

05/11/2025

Clear

92° / 58°

0%

Monday

05/12/2025

Mostly Cloudy

78° / 53°

24%

Tuesday

05/13/2025

Clear

72° / 53°

2%

Wednesday

05/14/2025

Clear

81° / 57°

1%

Thursday

05/15/2025

Mostly Clear

87° / 62°

0%