Insane footage shows sinkhole in Mexico swallowing truck whole in seconds
The truck dropped rear-first into the hole
Featured Image Credit: @The_Facts_Dude / X
Sinkholes can be some of the most dangerous natural disasters to encounter as the speed at which they expand and consume whatever surrounds them can leave you with almost no time to react.
They can open up pretty much anywhere as long as the ground has the right conditions, and can swallow up entire buildings and houses in no time whatsoever if a big enough chasm is created.
Roads are a particularly dangerous place for sinkholes to rapidly emerge due to the number of cars that could potentially succumb to the disaster, and one delivery truck managed to experience that in real time as it only took a couple of seconds for the whole to drag it down.
A Jarritos soda truck was on an average journey through Mexico City when the ground suddenly gave way beneath the wheels, causing a massive hole to appear in the asphalt and drag the vehicle down into it.
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Footage was shared by The Facts Dude on X, and shows the truck drop rear-first into the whole and get stuck, before rapidly slipping 'free' and tumbling even further into the abyss below.
The horrifying event occurred in Iztapalapa, Mexico City's most populous area, and has been linked to a collapsed drainage system that operated below the roads.
Aleida Alavez Ruiz, mayor of Iztapalapa, was the one that attributed the sinkhole to the 'very old' sewage network, and it took rescue crews just a few minutes to arrive at the scene in order to take preventative actions.
However, despite their urgency in attending to the emergency, it took roughly 20 hours, two heavy-duty cranes, and a backhoe to drag the truck out of the hole, showing quite how dangerous the situation had become.
Thankfully no one was injured as a result of the sinkhole, but authorities did evacuate around 20 residents in the surrounding area as a precautionary measure just in case the disaster expanded in size.
Some people across social media have joked that events like this are the reason why your deliveries are always late, and one individual even suggested that Jarritos could use this as the perfect marketing opportunity, claiming that its soda is so good that "even Mother Nature wants some."
The driver of this particular truck would definitely rather that nature asks politely for a drink next time, as there can't be many more terrifying situations to be in as a driver than feeling your vehicle drop rapidly into a hole that just appears in the ground.