A huge sinkhole has opened up and swallowed up a car in a major Missouri city.
The car’s owner returned from a workout in a nearby gym to find his vehicle inside the hole on Thursday.
The 20 feet deep and eight to ten feet wide hole spread across the whole southbound lane of the street in downtown St Louis.
It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse, but a below-ground water main at the site was reportedly discovered to have long been broken.
Jordan Westerberg, the car’s owner, and his fiancée returned from their gym session at about 7am local time to find their car had sunk into the ground.
"It's pretty crazy," Mr Westerberg said. "We could've been in the car. It's a compact car, it's not like it's heavy."
A spokesman for the city’s water division said the hole was missing mounds of dirt that normally support the road’s concrete from below.
He said such voids big enough to swallow a vehicle a rarity in the city.
